Printed on the plate
“Blue-Grey Fly-catcher”
Male 1. Female 2. | Black Walnut. Juglans nigra.
Modern identification
Polioptila caerulea
- Certain
- Gnatcatchers · Polioptilidae
Why
Audubon's “Blue-Grey Fly-catcher” is today's Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Sources
Featherframe havell.yaml; plate title from audubon.org
Who made the plate
Drawn from Nature and Published by John J. Audubon F. R. S. F. L. SEngraved. Printed & Coloured by R. Havell.
- John James Audubon drew
- Robert Havell Jr. engraved, printed and coloured
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