Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 39

Tufted Titmouse

Printed “Crested Titmouse”

Plate 39 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Crested Titmouse”

Male 1. F. 2. | Plant, Pinus Strobus.

Modern identification

Tufted Titmouse

Baeolophus bicolor

  • Certain
  • Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice · Paridae

Why

Audubon's “Crested Titmouse” is today's Tufted Titmouse

Sources

Featherframe havell.yaml; plate title from audubon.org

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.

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