Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 370

American Dipper

Printed “American Water Ouzel”

Plate 370 of Audubon's The Birds of America: American Dipper (Cinclus mexicanus)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“American Water Ouzel”

Male, 1. Female, 2.

Modern identification

American Dipper

Cinclus mexicanus

  • Certain
  • Shown as a subspecies
  • Dippers · Cinclidae

Why

Audubon's “American Water Ouzel” is today's American Dipper

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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