Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 363

Bohemian Waxwing

Printed “Bohemian Chatterer”

Plate 363 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)
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Printed on the plate

“Bohemian Chatterer”

Male 1. Female. 2. | Pyrus Americanus Canadian Service Tree

Modern identification

Bohemian Waxwing

Bombycilla garrulus

  • Certain
  • Waxwings · Bombycillidae

Why

Audubon's “Bohemian Chatterer” is today's Bohemian Waxwing

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. 1837

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

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