Printed on the plate
“American Woodcock”
Male 1. Female 2. Young Autumn. 3.
Modern identification
Scolopax minor
- Certain
- Sandpipers and Allies · Scolopacidae
Why
Audubon's “American Woodcock” (Scolopax minor) is today's American Woodcock; same binomial.
Sources
Featherframe havell.yaml; plate title from audubon.org
Who made the plate
Drawn from Nature by J. J. Audubon. F. R. S. F. L. S.Engraved, Printed, & Coloured. by R. Havell, London, 1835.
- John James Audubon drew
- Robert Havell Jr. engraved, printed and coloured
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
