Three specimens in Royal BC Museum. No. 7998: male purple finch, collected by Ian McTaggart-Cowan, Tipper Creek, May 6, 1938; No. 13975: male house finch, collected by Hamilton Mack Laing, Comox, December 29, 1964; No. 6032: female house finch, collected by Ian McTaggart-Cowan, Victoria, June 10, 1937. Photographed by Michael Wall. (Family: fringillidae; binomial name: haemorhous mexicanus)

In Collection:

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Creator

• Wall, Michael

Contributor

• Laing, Hamilton M. (Hamilton Mack), 1883-1982
• McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010

Subject

• Birds
• Zoological specimens
• Cassin's finch
• House finch

Language

• eng

Identifier

• COWAN_PH_427; No. 7998; No. 13975; No. 6032

Date created

• 1937 to 1964

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 1 photograph : colour

Alternative title

• Carpodacus mexicanus
• Carpodacus purpureus

Geographic Coverage

• British Columbia--Tupper Creek
• British Columbia--Victoria
• British Columbia--Comox

Coordinates

• 49.68294, -124.93613
• 55.4999, -120.03612
• 48.4359, -123.35155

Additional physical characteristics

• Date and geographic information reflect when and where the specimens were collected.

Physical Repository

• Royal British Columbia Museum

Collection

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Sponsor

• Digitization undertaken with the support of Ann Schau.

Genre

• color photographs
• photographs

Technical note

• Digitized by Briony Penn. Migration metadata by KD.

Rights

• Contact UVic Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original resource and for reproduction requests. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/6dw6-8h09

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