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Yellow-breasted Chat Princeton Audubon Limited Edition
Icteria virens Flora: possibly Rosa virginiana Print size: 26 1/4" x 39 1/4"; image size: 20" x 24" Produced 1985 - Princeton Audubon Limited Edition Painted in New Jersey, June 7. 1829."I have presented you with several figures of this singular species," Audubon wrote of the painting from which this plate was engraved, "to shew you their positions when on the wing performing their antics in the love season as well as when alighted." This "performing," as he noted, involved "the strangest and most whimsical gesticulations."The chat is the largest member of the New World family of wood warblers and prefers to live in tangled thickets and hedgerows along streams. It has been described by George Dock, Jr. as "one of the most talented clowns of the feathered kingdom, both with its voice and its droll antics in the air. Rising from his perch in some thick bush or briar patch, the male flops about in an awkward fashion, with its legs dangling, and performs parachute-like descents on uptilted wings while jerking his tail." SKU: 221137 Category: Posters and Prints
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