Printed on the plate
“Black-throated green Warbler, Blackburnian and Mourning Warbler”
Black-throated green Warbler, 1. Male. 2. Female. | Blackburnian W., 3. Female. | Mourning Warbler, 4. Male. 5. Female.
The printed name is now eBird's name for another bird: Mourning Warbler.
Modern identification
Figure 1. Male. 2. Female.
Printed “Black-throated green Warbler”
Setophaga virens
- Certain
- New World Warblers · Parulidae
Why
Audubon's “Black-throated green Warbler” (Sylvia virens, figs. 1–2) is today's Black-throated Green Warbler
Sources
Featherframe havell.yaml; plate title from audubon.org; New-York Historical Society; Wikimedia Commons; Boston Public Library (Digital Commonwealth)
Figure 3. Female.
Printed “Blackburnian W.”
Setophaga fusca
- Certain
- New World Warblers · Parulidae
Why
Audubon's “Blackburnian W.” (Sylvia blackburniae, fig. 3, a female) is today's Blackburnian Warbler; its main plate is 135
Sources
engraved legend; New-York Historical Society; Wikimedia Commons
Figure 4. Male. 5. Female.
Printed “Mourning Warbler”
Geothlypis tolmiei
- Certain
- New World Warblers · Parulidae
Why
Audubon's “Mourning Warbler” (Sylvia philadelphia, figs. 4–5) is today's MacGillivray's Warbler: in 1839 Audubon wrote that these two Columbia River birds had been misnamed on the plate and named them Sylvia macgillivrayi, for their white eyelids. NYHS and Pitt agree
Sources
Audubon, Ornithological Biography v (1839); New-York Historical Society; Pitt's Havell catalogue; 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
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
