Object Status:
Extant
Accession Date:
By 1799
Primary Source Reference:
Charles Willson Peale, Lecture on Natural History 15. (ca. 1799). Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Archives, coll. 40. / https://ansp.org/research/library/archives/0000-0099/coll0040/
Additional Source Text:
Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) wrote, in his 15th Lecture (ca. 1799): "Parrakeet of Botany Bay. I exhibited this bird alive in my Lectures [last] year. Red head and breast; throat bright blue; feathers of the back are dark green, and each tipped with red, which gives the spots of green a lunar form. The lesser coverts of the wings a fine blue. Tail blue & cuneated. White bill, broader than in common Parrots, and not much hooked at the point, the tooth very acute. This bird is about 14 inches long." (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Archives, coll. 40)
Specimen Type:
Live (later taxidermied)
Current Common Name:
Crimson Rosella
Current Scientific Name
Psittaculidae | Platycercus elegans
