Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
By 1796
Primary Source Reference:
A Scientific and Descriptive Catalogue of Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, 1796), pp. 39-40
Additional Source Text:
"Not yet described"; "found in Maryland."
Notes:
Titian Ramsay Peale executed a watercolor of the mink and the ermine when engaged on the Long Expedition in 1819-1820, a detail of which is pictured here.
John D. Godman, American Natural History. Part I. Mastology, 3 vols. (Philadelphia, 1826-1828), 1: 208, states that there is "an overstuffed and faded skin of the common mink" in the Philadelphia Museum."
Richard Harlan described the mink, which he identified as Mustela lutreocephala, in Fauna Americana: Being a Description of the Mammiferous Animals Inhabitating North America, pp. 63--65, based on a specimen "obtained and prepared by Mr. C. W. Peale many years ago, in Maryland" / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3194214
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Peale's Common Name:
Mink
Peale's Scientific Name:
nondescript
Current Common Name:
American mink
Current Scientific Name
Neogale vison
