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A natural history of birds... Part 2, Plate 79.

Edwards, G. (1747). A natural history of birds... Part 2, Plate 79. London: Printed for the author, at the College of Physicians in Warwick-Lane. Smithsonian Libraries & Biodiversity Heritage Library (QL674.E26 1743) / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/250133#page/90/mode/1up

IMAGE INFORMATION

Common Iora (mounted taxidermy)

Object Status:

Extant

Accession Date:

By 1799

Primary Source Reference:

Charles Willson Peale, Lecture on Natural History 36. (ca. 1799). Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Archives, coll. 40. / https://ansp.org/research/library/archives/0000-0099/coll0040/

Additional Source Text:

Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) wrote, in his 36th Lecture (ca. 1799): "No. 1834. Green Indian Warbler. Lath. II. 2. p. 474. 290. Figuier Vert & Jaune Buff. Green Indian Flycatcher Edws. t. 79. Motacilla tiphia. Linn." (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Archives, coll. 40)

Specimen Type:

Dead/preserved

Current Common Name:

Common Iora

Current Scientific Name

Aegithalidae | Aegithina tiphia