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. 1615. Fringilla montana of Linn. Friquet Buff. pl. enl. 267. Mountain Sparrow Ed. t. 207. Latham Syn II. I. p. 252. n. 2. Art. Zool. 2. p. 379. 246. Inhabits Europe, eastern Sibiria & also ? North America. I much doubt it." Peale inadvertently switched the Buffon citations for P. montanus and Rock Sparrow, Petronia petronia (Linnaeus). (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Archives, coll. 40)
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Current Common Name:
Eurasian Tree Sparrow
Current Scientific Name
Passeridae | Passer montanus
