Plate 145
Havell CCCXXIV
Bonaparte's Gull
(Larus philadelphia)
“All three birds in this plate were drawn separately; then Audubon pasted them onto a background and filled in the tail and lower body of the bird at center. The young gull in the foreground probably dates from after 1830; the adult birds were probably painted in Louisiana about 1821. The lower bill of the bird at top has been torn away.”
Source: The Original Water-Color Paintings by John James Audubon. Copyright 1966 by American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc.
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