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. 1422. Cowry Gross beak (male) head, back & throat deep russet brown; the breast spotted with lunar-lights that give a scalloped appearance; Bill dark colour; the tail of an olive cast, a little pointed. Loxia punctularia Linn. Gross Bec Maluques. Buff. pl. enl. 139. f. 1. Gowry Edwards, No. 140. Latham p. 142. No. 50." (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Archives, coll. 40)
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Current Common Name:
Scaly-breasted Munia
Current Scientific Name
Estrildidae | Lonchura punctulata
