Object Status:
Extant
Accession Date:
By 1805
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): "here is the black Rail (R. Niger) from Africa." (Historical Society of Pennsylvania, coll. 0481)
Notes:
Matthew R. Halley, 2021, "The correct scientific name of the Black Crake (Gruiformes: Rallidae)", Bull. Br. Orn. Cl. 141: 211-215, showed that the name Rallus niger, which Peale used, was inappropriately supplanted by Gallinula flavirostra Swainson, 1837, Birds of western Africa, pt. II, Naturalist’s Library, vol. 12. Edinburgh. / https://doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v141i2.2021.a11
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Current Common Name:
Black Crake
Current Scientific Name
Rallidae | Zapornia flavirostra
