Rediscovery of the holotype of the American Goshawk, Accipiter gentilis atricapillus (Wilson, 1812), and a commentary about Alexander Wilson's contributions to the Peale Museum

The composite identity of Muscicapa virens Linnaeus, and a neotype designation for Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens (Tyrannidae)

“…)’ in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (MCZ), which came from the historic Boston Museum collection, are alleged to have originated in Peale’s collection (Faxon 1915: 144). However, there are lingering doubts about the provenance of this material (see Halley 2022: 234). Upon the dispersal of Peale’s collection in the mid-19th century, some material was reportedly purchased by Moses Kimball (1809–95), which passed temporarily to the Boston Society of Natural History, then spent several years stored in a barn in Massachusetts.…”