Atlantic Puffin (mounted taxidermy)

Object Status:

Extant

Primary Source Reference:

Charles Willson Peale, "A Walk through the Philad[elphi]a Museum" (1805-1806). Historical Society of Pennsylvania, coll. 0481.

Additional Source Text:

Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) wrote, in "A Walk Through the Philad[elphi]a Museum" (1805–1806): "The other [specimen] with the compressed Bill, 2 edged, with 4 groves [grooves], came from Great Britain."(Historical Society of Pennsylvania, coll. 0481)

Specimen Type:

Dead/preserved

Current Common Name:

Atlantic Puffin

Current Scientific Name

Alcidae | Fratercula arctica