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 16. Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, Robert Carr / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/175511#page/141/mode/1up (text) / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/175511#page/134/mode/1up (plate)
Additional Source Text:
Alexander Wilson (1766-1813) described this species under the name "Tree Sparrow / Fringilla arborea in American Ornithology vol. 2 (Pl. 16), where "Peale's Museum No. 6575" was cited (Wilson 1810: 123).
Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885) made an unfinished drawing (shown here) at "Engineer [Cantonment]" in March 1820 (American Philosophical Society Library, Mss.B.P31.15d, 130). The subject of that drawing may have been deposited with other "sundry small birds" on 23 March 1821, according to the Peale Museum Accessions Book (Historical Society of Pennsylvania, coll. 0481).
Two mounted specimens of "Fringilla monticola (Tree Sparrow)" were listed in "A Catalogue of Duplicate Specimens...", May 1822. [unpublished] American Philosophical Society Library (Mss.B.P31).
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Current Common Name:
American Tree Sparrow
Current Scientific Name
Passerellidae | Spizelloides arborea
