Object Status:
Extant
Accession Date:
By 1799
Primary Source Reference:
Charles Willson Peale, Lecture on Natural History 35. (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 35th Lecture (ca. 1799): "No. 1690. Yellow vented Flycatcher. Inhabits about Lake Baikal, & eastern parts of Sibiria. Observed also at Kamscatska [sic]. Lath." (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Archives, coll. 40)
Peale wrote, in "A Walk Through the Philad[elphi]a Museum" (1805–1806): "The next case contains the … Yellow vented flycatcher (M. haemorrhous)." (Historical Society of Pennsylvania, coll. 0481)
Notes:
John Latham, 1785, A general synopsis of birds, vol. 1, p. 335 (London) had described the "Yellow-vented Flycatcher" from Java, Indonesia, as a variety of the Red-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus cafer) from Sri Lanka, which explains Peale's use of the epithet "haemorrhous." Latham was a colleague of Peale and contributed books and specimens to the Museum.
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Current Common Name:
Yellow-vented Bulbul
Current Scientific Name
Pycnonotidae | Pycnonotus goiavier
