Printed on the plate
“Selby's Fly catcher”
Modern identification
Setophaga citrina
- Certain
- A variant
- New World Warblers · Parulidae
Why
Audubon's “Selby's Fly catcher” (Muscicapa selbii), which he named as a species, is a young Hooded Warbler without the hood; its main plate is 110.
Sources
audubon.org; Wikimedia Commons
Who made the plate
Drawn from Nature by John J. Audubon F. R. S. E. M. W. S.Engraved by W. H. Lizars Edinr.Printed & Coloured by R. Havell Sen.
- John James Audubon drew
- William Home Lizars engraved
- Robert Havell Sr. printed and coloured
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