Printed on the plate
“Stormy Petrel”
Male 1. Female 2.
Modern identification
Oceanites oceanicus
- Certain
- Southern Storm-Petrels · Oceanitidae
Why
Audubon's “Wilson's Petrel” (Thalassidroma wilsonius on the plate) is today's Wilson's Storm-Petrel; audubon.org titles the plate “Stormy Petrel”
Sources
engraved legend; Audubon, Ornithological Biography iii (1835); 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.
