Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 316

Anhinga

Printed “Black-bellied Darter”

Plate 316 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Black-bellied Darter”

Modern identification

Anhinga

Anhinga anhinga

  • Certain
  • Anhingas · Anhingidae

Why

Audubon's “Black-bellied Darter” is today's Anhinga

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 and Coloured, by R. Havell. 1836.

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