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Marsh Tit (mounted taxidermy)

Object Status:

Extant

Accession Date:

By 1799

Primary Source Reference:

Charles Willson Peale, Lecture on Natural History 37. (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) listed specimens recently received from Europe in a supplemental page to his 37th Lecture, including: "No. 1919. Black Cap Titmouse. Lath. II. 2. p. 541. No. 8. Mesange tête noir. Parus palustris Linn." (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Archives, coll. 40)

Specimen Type:

Dead/preserved

Current Common Name:

Marsh Tit

Current Scientific Name

Paridae | Poecile palustris