Object Status:
Extant
Accession Date:
By 1799
Primary Source Reference:
Charles Willson Peale, Lecture on Natural History 29. (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 29th Lecture (ca. 1799): "No. 1070. The Hybridal Pheasant, male, is a variety; in this the ground of the plumage is of an orange coloured brown; the black are alike in both; as is also the head & neck, except that the red under the eyes hang down like in some measure … the gills of the common Dunhill cock, perhaps it is [becquer], or Bastard Pheasant, a name given by Frisch to this variety, which he considers a breed between the cock Pheasant & the common hen, many of which he says are raised in Germany, being profitable. The Phasianus colchicus Hybridus Linn. Hybridal Lath. no. 4. p. 716." (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Archives, coll. 40)
Peale wrote, in "A Walk Through the Philad[elphi]a Museum" (1805–1806): "The Hybridal Pheasant (P. Colchichus Hybridus) is considered a mixture of the Pheasant & our common Poultry." (Historical Society of Pennsylvania, coll. 0481)
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Current Common Name:
Ring-necked Pheasant × Domestic Chicken hybrid
Current Scientific Name
Phasianidae | Phasianus colchichus × | Gallus domesticus
