Printed on the plate
“Prairie Starling”
Modern identification
Agelaius phoeniceus
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Troupials and Allies · Icteridae
Why
Audubon's “Prairie Starling” (Icterus gubernator) is a bicolored Red-winged Blackbird: the male's red shoulder has no buff border, the mark of the western bicolored races, and Wagler's gubernator is now the Mexican one. Not the Tricolored Blackbird of plate 388; its main plate is 67.
Sources
audubon.org; Wikimedia Commons; Boston Public Library (Digital Commonwealth)
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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