Printed on the plate
“Sandwich Tern”
Florida Cray Fish.
Modern identification
Thalasseus sandvicensis
- Certain
- Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers · Laridae
Why
Audubon's “Sandwich Tern” (Sterna boyssii; S. cantiaca in his text) is today's Sandwich Tern
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. 1835.
- John James Audubon drew
- Robert Havell Jr. engraved, printed and coloured
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