Printed on the plate
“Violet-green Cormorant and Townsend's Cormorant”
Violet-green Cormorant, Female in Winter. | Townsend's Cormorant, Male.
Modern identification
Printed “Townsend's Cormorant”
Urile penicillatus
- Certain
- A variant
- Cormorants and Shags · Phalacrocoracidae
Why
Audubon's “Townsend's Cormorant” (Phalacrocorax townsendi, the male) is a young Brandt's Cormorant, which he described as a new species from Townsend's two Cape Disappointment skins.
Sources
Featherframe havell.yaml; plate title from audubon.org
Printed “Violet-green Cormorant”
Urile pelagicus
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Cormorants and Shags · Phalacrocoracidae
Why
Audubon's “Violet-green Cormorant” (Phalacrocorax resplendens, a female in winter) is the southern race of today's Pelagic Cormorant, U. p. resplendens, named from Townsend's Cape Disappointment bird.
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 Robt. Havell. 1838.
- John James Audubon drew
- Robert Havell Jr. engraved, printed and coloured
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