Printed on the plate
“Columbian Water Ouzel, or Arctic Water Ouzel”
Modern identification
Cinclus mexicanus
- Certain
- A variant
- Dippers · Cinclidae
Why
Audubon's “Columbian Water Ouzel” (Cinclus townsendi, fig. 1, the barred female) and Townsend's “Arctic Water Ouzel” (C. mortoni, fig. 2, a male) are both today's American Dipper, figured as two new species; its main plate is 370.
Sources
engraved title; audubon.org; Wikimedia Commons; Boston Public Library (Digital Commonwealth); Pitt's Havell catalogue
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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