Object Status:
Extant
Accession Date:
By 1799
Primary Source Reference:
Charles Willson Peale, Lecture on Natural History 19. (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 19th Lecture (ca. 1799): "No. 318. Greater spotted Woodpecker or Witwall. Lath. I. 2. p. 564. n. 12. Epeiche ou pic varia Buff. pl. enl. 595. Female. His pl. of 196 is the male, it has red on the back of its head. Picus major Linn." (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Archives, coll. 40)
Peale wrote, in "A Walk Through the Philad[elphi]a Museum" (1805–1806): "Greater spotted Woodpecker (P. Major) Inhabits Europe, North America and Siberia." (Historical Society of Pennsylvania, coll. 0481)
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Current Common Name:
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Current Scientific Name
Picidae | Dendrocopos major
