Printed on the plate
“Autumnal Warbler”
Modern identification
Setophaga castanea
- Certain
- A variant
- New World Warblers · Parulidae
Why
Audubon's “Autumnal Warbler” (Wilson's Sylvia autumnalis), figured as a species, is a Bay-breasted Warbler in its first autumn; its main plate is 69.
Sources
audubon.org; 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. P. L. S.Engraved, Printed & Coloured by R. Havell.
- John James Audubon drew
- Robert Havell Jr. engraved, printed and coloured
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