Object Status:
Extant
Accession Date:
By 1810
Primary Source Reference:
Alexander Wilson (1810). 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 2, Plate 14. Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, Robert Carr / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46337279 (text) / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46337264 (plate)
Additional Source Text:
Alexander Wilson (1766-1813) described this species under the name "Bay-breasted Warbler / Sylvia castanea" in American Ornithology vol. 2 (Pl. 14), where "Peale's Museum No. 7311" was cited (Wilson 1810: 97).
Notes:
The "Autumnal Warbler / Sylvia autumnalis" of Wilson (1811), which appeared in American Ornithology vol. 3, Pl. 23, may have been an immature (hatch-year) of this species, but Wilson did not cite a Peale Museum number in that account. For more discussion, see Matthew R. Halley, 2024, "Return to the ‘Great Pine Swamp’ of Alexander Wilson", Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 144(1): 48-72.
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Current Common Name:
Bay-breasted Warbler
Current Scientific Name
Parulidae | Setophaga castanea
