Printed on the plate
“Chestnut-backed Titmouse, Black-capt Titmouse, and Chestnut-crowned Titmouse”
Chesnut-backed Titmouse, 1. Male, 2. Female. | Black-capt Titmouse, 3. Male, 4. Female. | Chesnut-crowned Titmouse, 5. Male, 6. Female. | (and Nest.) | Willow Oak ~ Quercus Phellos. L.
Modern identification
Figure 1. Male, 2. Female.
Printed “Chesnut-backed Titmouse”
Poecile rufescens
- Certain
- Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice · Paridae
Why
Audubon's “Chesnut-backed Titmouse” (Parus rufescens, figs. 1–2) is today's Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Sources
Featherframe havell.yaml; plate title from audubon.org; New-York Historical Society; Wikimedia Commons
Figure 3. Male, 4. Female.
Printed “Black-capt Titmouse”
Poecile atricapillus
- Certain
- Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice · Paridae
Why
Audubon's “Black-capt Titmouse” (Parus atricapillus, figs. 3–4) is today's Black-capped Chickadee
Sources
Featherframe havell.yaml; plate title from audubon.org; New-York Historical Society; Wikimedia Commons; Boston Public Library (Digital Commonwealth)
Figure 5. Male, 6. Female.
Printed “Chesnut-crowned Titmouse”
Psaltriparus minimus
- Certain
- Long-tailed Tits · Aegithalidae
Why
Audubon's “Chesnut-crowned Titmouse” (Parus minimus Townsend, figs. 5–6, with the long hanging nest) is today's Bushtit; Nuttall's account in the text is of its purse-shaped nest on the Willamette
Sources
engraved legend; Audubon, Ornithological Biography iv (1838); New-York Historical Society; Boston Public Library (Digital Commonwealth); the plate
Who made the plate
Drawn from Nature by J. J. Audubon. F. R. S. F. L. S.Engraved. Printed and Coloured. by R. Havell, 1837.
- John James Audubon drew
- Robert Havell Jr. engraved, printed and coloured
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