Skip to main content
Please wait...

American Herring Gull (mounted taxidermy)

Object Status:

Extant

Accession Date:

By May 1822

Primary Source Reference:

A Catalogue of Duplicate Specimens of Subjects in Natural History belonging to the Philadelphia Museum Comp[any], May 1822. [unpublished] APS Library Mss.B.P31.

Additional Source Text:

A mounted specimen of "Larus fuscus (Herring Gull)" was listed (APS Library, Mss.B.P31).

Specimen Type:

Dead/preserved

Current Common Name:

American Herring Gull

Current Scientific Name

Laridae | Larus smithsonianus