Skip to main content
Please wait...
Capuchinbird

Drawn by F.-N. Martinet (1731-1800) for Daubenton, E. L. Planches enluminées d’histoire naturelle (1765-83). Tome 6, Plate 521. Paris, France. Smithsonian Libraries & Biodiversity Heritage Library (QL674.M385 1765) / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109398#page/49/mode/1up

IMAGE INFORMATION

Capuchinbird (mounted taxidermy)

Object Status:

Extant

Accession Date:

1 October 1807

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, 1 October 1807. Historical Society of Pennsylvania, coll. 0481, p. 25.

Additional Source Text:

On 1 October 1807, a "Corvus Calvus. Bald Crow" donated by James Griffith was entered in the Peale Museum Accessions Book, p. 25 (Historical Society of Pennsylvania, coll. 0481).

Specimen Type:

Dead/preserved

Current Common Name:

Capuchinbird

Current Scientific Name

Cotingidae | Perissocephalus tricolor