Printed on the plate
“Black & Yellow Warbler”
Male. | Tree, Vulgo. White Oak.
The printed name is now eBird's name for another bird: Swainson's Warbler.
Modern identification
Setophaga magnolia
- Certain
- New World Warblers · Parulidae
Why
A young Magnolia Warbler. These scans carry the 1828 lettering “Swainson's Warbler, Sylvicola swainsonia”: Audubon wrote in 1831 that one drawing had been engraved in place of another while he was away from London, and the plate was re-lettered “Black and yellow warbler, Sylvia maculosa, young male”. Not the Swainson's Warbler of plate 198. The adult pair is plate 123
Sources
engraved title; audubon.org; Wikimedia Commons; Pitt's Havell catalogue; Boston Public Library (Digital Commonwealth), both letterings; Audubon, Ornithological Biography vol. 1 (1831)
Who made the plate
Drawn from Nature and 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
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
