Object Status:
Extant
Accession Date:
By 1803
Primary Source Reference:
Charles Willson Peale, Lecture on Natural History 35. (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 35th Lecture (ca. 1799): "No. 1751. Whin-chat Warbler. head and back of rusty brown, spotted with black; over each Eye a white line; under that a broad bed of black & beneath this another white line; the breast reddish yellow; the quill feathers are brown, edged with a yellowish brown; the upper part of the wing is marked with two white spots. Motacilla Rubetra Linn. Le Tarier Buff. pl. enl. 678. f. 2. No. 1752. Female. colours of less brilliancy, and where the cheeks of the male is black, this is brown. Inhabits Europe." (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Archives, coll. 40)
Rubens Peale (1784-1865) wrote to his father from London, on 1 June 1803: "I have got 2 new genera, which are Saxicola and Silvia, of the former are Saxe Oenanthe, male & female Saxe Rubetra, male & Female" (Miller 1988: 529, Selected Papers, Vol. 2, part 1, Yale University Press).
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Current Common Name:
Whinchat
Current Scientific Name
Muscicapidae | Saxicola rubetra
