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. 1410. Chinease Grossbeak. Head & neck black, all other plumage of a chocolate brown. No. 1411. Female, all the upper parts of a pale brown; wing quils & tail dark; underneath the [body] a dingy white. Loxia malacca Linn. Chinese Sparrow Edwards No. 43. They are not sparrows because the Bills have not the character." (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Archives, coll. 40)
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Current Common Name:
Tricolored Munia
Current Scientific Name
Estrildidae | Lonchura malacca
