Printed on the plate
“Summer Red Bird”
Male old 1. Young 2. F. 3. | Plant Vulgo Wild Muscadine. | Vitis rotundifolia.
Modern identification
Piranga rubra
- Certain
- Cardinals and Allies · Cardinalidae
Why
Audubon's “Summer Red Bird” is today's Summer Tanager
Sources
Featherframe havell.yaml; plate title from audubon.org
Who made the plate
Drawn from Nature & Published by John J. Audubon. F. R. S. E. F. L. S. M. W. S.Engraved by R. Havell Junr. Printed & Coloured, by R. Havell, Senr. London. 1828.
- John James Audubon drew
- Robert Havell Jr. engraved
- Robert Havell Sr. printed and coloured
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