Blue Headed Pigeon by John James Audubon art print

An archival premium quality art Print of the Blue Headed Pigeon or Ground Dove by John James Audubon for sale by Brandywine General Store. This painting was plate or picture number 172 in the first Havell edition of the ornithology book by Audubon entitled The Birds of America. In this artwork Audubon shows three specimens of this pigeon, two females and one male. They are in a rocky area with grass lands in behind them. Wildflowers are growing up around the rocks with a tall grassy looking wild flower in the background. These birds are a reddish brown and black in color with beautiful blue heads, hence their name. Mr. Audubon had trouble locating these birds, thus he has a very short description of them.Mr. Audubon describes the Blue Headed Pigeon or Ground Dove in Birds of America thus "A few of these birds migrate each spring from the Island of Cuba to the Keys of Florida, but are rarely seen, on account of the deep tangled woods in which they live. Early in May 1832, while on a sho