Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
August 31, 1795
Primary Source Reference:
New-York Gazette, 31 Aug 1795
Additional Source Text:
Donor is "of South Carolina."
Notes:
John James Audubon (1785-1851) noted that Cuba partridge was the name commonly given to the blue-headed pigeon (Columba cyanocephala). It appers as plate 172 in the 1827 edition of his Birds of America.
The donor was probably David Ramsay, M.D. (1749-1815), a native of Pennsylvania who received his medical education in Philadelphi and removed to South Carolina. He was one of the first historians of the American Revolution and his brother Nathaniel was a brother-in-law of Charles Willson Peale.
Specimen Type:
Live (presumably eventually taxidermied/preserved)
Peale's Common Name:
Cuba partridge
Current Common Name:
Blue-headed pigeon
Current Scientific Name
Columba cyanocephala
