Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 93

Seaside Sparrow

Printed “Seaside Finch”

Plate 93 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Seaside Sparrow (Ammospiza maritima)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Seaside Finch”

1. M. & 2. Female. | Carolina Rose. Rosa Carolina.

Modern identification

Seaside Sparrow

Ammospiza maritima

  • Certain
  • New World Sparrows · Passerellidae

Why

Audubon's “Sea-side Finch” is today's Seaside Sparrow

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. S.Engraved, Printed & Coloured by R. Havell.

As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.

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