Printed on the plate
“Black-billed Cuckoo”
Male 1. F. 2. | Plant, Magnolia grandiflora.
Modern identification
Coccyzus erythropthalmus
- Certain
- Cuckoos · Cuculidae
Why
Audubon's “Black-billed Cuckoo” (Coccyzus erythrophthalmus) is today's Black-billed Cuckoo, Coccyzus erythropthalmus; same binomial.
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., F. L. S., M. W. S.Engraved, Printed & Coloured by R. Havell & Son. London. 1828.
- John James Audubon drew
- Robert Havell & Son engraved, printed and coloured
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
