Object Status:
Extant
Accession Date:
By 1799
Primary Source Reference:
Charles Willson Peale, Lecture on Natural History 34. (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 34th Lecture (ca. 1799): "No. 1612. Brown Sparrow. This is a more even brown colour, and less striped than any of our sparrows. It is a rare bird, as such I pass it by without further description in a hope that I shall in some future day make a better acquaince [sic] with it. Buffon has given a plate No. 223 f. 2. Moineau du Canada. Sparrow of Canada, which indicates a likeness to it. It might in a severe season have rambled thus far south." (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Archives, coll. 40)
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Current Common Name:
Unidentified sparrow
Current Scientific Name
Passerellidae | Unidentified
