Object Status:
Extant
Accession Date:
By 1805
Primary Source Reference:
Charles Willson Peale, "A Walk through the Philad[elphi]a Museum" (1805-1806). Historical Society of Pennsylvania, coll. 0481.
Additional Source Text:
Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) wrote, in "A Walk Through the Philad[elphi]a Museum" (1805–1806): "The gay contrasted colours of these [Bee-eater] specimens, large as well as small, are so distinct as almost to give them the appearance of being painted, and they are rendered still more striking when we compare them with the brown dress, and naked head of the Horned Bee-eater (M. corniculatus), all of them are from New Holland except the Common Bee-eater (M. apiaster) No. 2250 & 2251. They inhabit Europe as well as Assia and Africa." (Historical Society of Pennsylvania, coll. 0481)
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Current Common Name:
Noisy Friarbird
Current Scientific Name
Meliphagidae | Philemon corniculatus
