Object Status:
Extant
Accession Date:
By 1799
Primary Source Reference:
Charles Willson Peale, Lecture on Natural History 32. (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 32nd Lecture (ca. 1799): "No. 1416. Ringed Grossbeak. The top of the head & body brown beautifully barred with black. A collar of crimson red passes round the neck towards the back part. The tail black tipped with white. Beak a dingy white. This is an African bird, chiefly about Senegal. I do not find it described in any of the authors, but I found a plate much like it in the French Encyclopaedia Methodic. tab. 148. fig. 3." (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Archives, coll. 40)
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Current Common Name:
Cut-throat
Current Scientific Name
Estrildidae | Amadina fasciata
