Object Status:
Extant
Accession Date:
30 May 1794
Primary Source Reference:
Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 30 May 1794.
Additional Source Text:
On 30 May 1794, the donation of "A dove (alive) of the East Indies" by Jacob Coates was announced in Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser, published in Philadelphia. The same announcement also ran in the New-York Daily Gazette on 28 Jan 1792, and the Argus, published in Boston, on 10 February 1792.
Notes:
This dove cannot be identified without a physical description.
Specimen Type:
Live
Current Common Name:
Unidentified doves
Current Scientific Name
Columbidae | Unidentified
