Printed on the plate
“MacGillivray's Finch”
Modern identification
Ammospiza maritima
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- New World Sparrows · Passerellidae
Why
Audubon's “MacGillivray's Finch” (Fringilla macgillivraii) is MacGillivray's Seaside Sparrow, A. m. macgillivraii, a race of today's Seaside Sparrow named from Bachman's Charleston birds; the Seaside Finch is plate 93.
Sources
audubon.org; Wikimedia Commons
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
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
