Object Status:
Extant
Accession Date:
By 1807
Primary Source Reference:
Charles Willson Peale, undated pencil sketch (c.1807), American Philosophical Society (APS) Library, Peale-Sellers Family Collection, Mss.B.P31, vol. 148.
Additional Source Text:
There are pencil inscriptions on the bottom left ("CWP del.") and bottom right of Peale's drawing ("Drawn for Capt M Lewis / (1806?) / by CWPeale").
Notes:
The first specimen of this species was collected during the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1806 and deposited at the Philadelphia Museum by Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) in 1807, where it was drawn by C. W. Peale. For a full discussion, see Matthew R. Halley, 2023,“The forgotten history of Oreortyx pictus (mountain quail), discovered by the Lewis and Clark expedition, 1806,” Archives of Natural History 50: 337-346. / https://doi.org/10.3366/anh.2023.0865 / https://doi.org/10.3366/anh.2023.0865 / https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/anh.2023.0865
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Current Common Name:
Mountain Quail
Current Scientific Name
Phasianidae | Oreortyx pictus
