Object Status:
Extant
Accession Date:
By 1799
Primary Source Reference:
Charles Willson Peale, Lecture on Natural History 24. (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 24th Lecture (ca. 1799): "634. White throat Grebe. none of the descriptions which I have read agree with the bird before us. It is larger than the black throat grebe. The bill is longer and not so thick; top of the head, back and wings are brown; the belly underparts silvery white; and I think the skin must be equally […] for […] as the [Tippet?] Grebe of Europe, which sell for 14/each at Geneva. Catesby describes one under the name of the greater Dobchick, which comes the nearest to this of any description I have meet with, yet this [specimen] wants the mark on the side of the neck." (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Archives, coll. 40)
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Current Common Name:
Unidentified Grebe
Current Scientific Name
Podicipedidae | Unidentified
