Printed on the plate
“Children's Warbler”
Modern identification
Setophaga aestiva
- Certain
- A variant
- New World Warblers · Parulidae
Why
Audubon's “Children's Warbler” (Sylvia childrenii), which he named as a species, is a young Northern Yellow Warbler; its main plate is 95.
Sources
Wikimedia Commons; Boston Public Library (Digital Commonwealth); Audubon, Ornithological Biography vol. 1
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
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