Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 430

Marbled Murrelet

Printed “Slender-billed Guillemot”

Plate 430 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Slender-billed Guillemot”

1. Male. 2. Female.

Modern identification

Marbled Murrelet

Brachyramphus marmoratus

  • Certain
  • Auks, Murres, and Puffins · Alcidae

Why

Audubon's “Slender-billed Guillemot” is today's Marbled Murrelet

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.

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