Audubon Aquatint Sharp-Tailed Finch

AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).
Sharp-Tailed Finch, Plate 149.
Aquatint engraving with original hand color.
London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838.
38 3/8” x 25 1/2” sheet.
Comparable: Sotheby's. 2007 - $4,200.
"These Finches keep so much about the water, that they walk upon the floating weeds as unconcernedly as if on land, or on any drifting garbage raised from the mud at high tides; they congregate and feed together, and doubtless are constant companions until the spring, when these species separate for the purpose of breeding." - Audubon's Ornithological Biography.