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. 1417. White-headed Grossbeak is a bird of China. The body is a dark brown, and plumage of the head nearly white; the bill thick & strong of blueish colour. Loxia maja Linn. Maïa de la Chine. Buff. pl. enl. 109. f. 1. No. 1418. Female. I had these birds alive; their notes was melodious but feeble." (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Archives, coll. 40)
Specimen Type:
Live (later taxidermied)
Current Common Name:
White-headed Munia
Current Scientific Name
Estrildidae | Lonchura maja
