Printed on the plate
“Vigors Vireo”
Modern identification
Setophaga pinus
- Certain
- A variant
- New World Warblers · Parulidae
Why
Audubon's “Vigors Vireo” (Vireo vigorsii), which he named as a species, is a young Pine Warbler, as he wrote in 1839; its main plate is 140.
Sources
audubon.org; Wikimedia Commons
Who made the plate
Drawn from Nature and Published by John J. Audubon. F. R. S. E. M. W. S.Engraved, Printed & Coloured by R. Havell & Son, London.
- John James Audubon drew
- Robert Havell & Son engraved, printed and coloured
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