Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
By 1796
Primary Source Reference:
A Scientific and Descriptive Catalogue of Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, 1796), p. 15
Notes:
An account of the maternal affection of the bat appeared in The Philadelphia Museum, or Register of Natural History, 1, no. 1 (Jan 1824): 6 and also in Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, 4 Feb 1824, where it is designated Vespertilio noveboresensis. John D. Godman, in his American Natural History. Part I. Mastology, 3 vols. (Philadelphia, 1826-1828), 1:56-57, 68, quotes the entire account of the maternal affection of the bat from the Philadelphia Museum, attributing it to Titian Ramsay Peale / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49165285
Richard Harlan, in Fauna Americana: Being a Description of the Mammiferous Animals Inhabiting North America (Philadelphia, 1825), p. 23-24, identifies this species as Taphozous rufus or Vespertilio rufus, the red bat of Pennsylvania, and also relates the story / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3194363
Specimen Type:
Living/Live (presumably eventually taxidermied/preserved)
Peale's Common Name:
Reddish Bat
Peale's Scientific Name:
Vespertilio rubellus
Current Common Name:
Eastern red bat
Current Scientific Name
Lasiurus borealis
