Printed on the plate
“Rathbone Warbler”
Modern identification
Setophaga aestiva
- Certain
- A variant
- New World Warblers · Parulidae
Why
Audubon's “Rathbone Warbler” (Sylvia rathbonia), which he named as a species, is a Northern Yellow Warbler; its main plate is 95.
Sources
Wikimedia Commons; Boston Public Library (Digital Commonwealth); Pitt's Havell catalogue
Who made the plate
Drawn from Nature and Published by John J. Audubon, F. R. S. F. L. S.Engraved, Printed, & Coloured, by R. Havell.
- John James Audubon drew
- Robert Havell Jr. engraved, printed and coloured
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