Object Status:
Extant
Accession Date:
By 1799
Primary Source Reference:
Charles Willson Peale, Lecture on Natural History 30. (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 30th Lecture (ca. 1799): "No. 1174. Barbary Pigeon; very large; reddish brown colour reflecting green on the neck; great quills & tail cenerious." This passage was subsequently crossed out by Peale, suggesting that the specimen was removed from the display. Peale also wrote: "No. 1184. Collared Turtle Dove. The general colour is a rufous white, something like cream colour; the hind part of the neck masked with a [collar] of black feathers; feet red & claws brown. Columba risoria Linn. La touterelle à collier Buff. pl. enl. 244. Collared Turtle Latham p. 648. They inhabit India. They propagate in the domestic state, and are common in Europe & America. Very little difference between the male and female." (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Archives, coll. 40)
Peale wrote, in "A Walk Through the Philad[elphi]a Museum" (1805–1806): "The Collared Turtle Dove (C. risoria) inhabits India — they propagate in the domestic state and are common in Europe as well as in America" (Historical Society of Pennsylvania, coll. 0481).
A "Barbary Pigeon" specimen was donated on 29 January 1820 by John Perry, as entered into the Peale Museum Accessions Book, p. 100 (HSP, coll. 0481).
Notes:
The name risoria was given by Linnaeus to a domestic variety of African Collared-Dove S. roseogrisea (Sundevall, 1857, K.Vet.-Akad.Handl. n.s., 2 no.1 art.3 p.54), but this contradicts Peale’s description of the range which matches Eurasian Collared-Dove S. decaocto. The identity of Peale’s specimen is unknown.
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Current Common Name:
Eurasian / African Collared-Dove
Current Scientific Name
Columbidae | Streptopelia sp.
