Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 29

Eastern Towhee

Printed “Towee Bunting”

Plate 29 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Towee Bunting”

Male. 1. F. 2. | Plant. Vulgo, Black-berry.

Modern identification

Eastern Towhee

Pipilo erythrophthalmus

  • Certain
  • New World Sparrows · Passerellidae

Why

Audubon's “Towee Bunting” is today's Eastern Towhee

Sources

Featherframe havell.yaml; plate title from audubon.org

Who made the plate

Drawn from Nature and Published by John J. Audubon, F. R. S. E. M. W. S.Engraved, Printed and Coloured, by R. Havell & Son, London.

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