Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 347

Smew

Printed “Smew, or White Nun”

Plate 347 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Smew (Mergellus albellus)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Smew, or White Nun”

Male 1. Female, 2.

Modern identification

Smew

Mergellus albellus

  • Certain
  • Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl · Anatidae

Why

Audubon's “Smew or White Nun” is today's Smew

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.

As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.

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