Object Status:
Extant
Accession Date:
By 1808
Primary Source Reference:
Alexander Wilson (1808). American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States: illustrated with plates engraved and colored from original drawings taken from nature. Volume 1, Plate 5. Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, Robert Carr / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/175530#page/102/mode/1up (text) / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/175530#page/95/mode/1up (plate)
Additional Source Text:
Alexander Wilson (1766-1813) described this species under the name "Loxia enucleator / Pine Grosbeak" in American Ornithology vol. 1 (Pl. 5), where "Peale's Museum No. 5652" was cited (Wilson 1808: 80).
Wilson (1808: 80) stated that "The specimen from which our drawing was taken was shot on a cedar tree a few miles to the north of Philadelphia, in the month of December; and a faithful resemblance of the original, as it then appeared, is exhibited in the plate. A few days afterwards another bird of the same species was killed not far from Gray's Ferry, four miles south from Philadelphia, which proved to be a female. In this part of the state of Pennsylvania they are rare birds, and seldom seen." / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/175530#page/101/mode/1up
Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885) deposited a collection of "Sundry small Birds, [and] Anatomical preparations" and "1 [drawing of] Pine Grose Beak (young) finished" on 23 March 1821, after returning from the Long Expedition, which presumably included specimens of this species (Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, coll. 0481).
An unmounted specimen of "Loxia enucleator (Pine Grosbeak)" from Missouri was listed in "A Catalogue of Duplicate Specimens...", May 1822. [unpublished] American Philosophical Society Library (Mss.B.P31). This presumably refers to a specimen from the Long Expedition.
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Current Common Name:
Pine Grosbeak
Current Scientific Name
Fringillidae | Pinicola enucleator
