Published September 26, 2013 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Molothrus bonairensis subsp. aequatorialis Chapman

Creators

Description

Molothrus bonairensis aequatorialis Chapman

Molothrus bonairensis aequatorialis Chapman, 1915: 661 (Barbacoas, Narino, southwestern Colombia).

Now Molothrus bonairensis aequatorialis Chapman, 1915. See Hellmayr, 1937: 66; Blake, 1968: 197; Dickinson, 2003: 773; and Fraga, 2011: 786–787.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 118355, adult female, collected at Barbacoas, 01.41N, 78.09W

(Paynter, 1997), Nariño, southwestern Colombia, on 5 August 1912, by William B. Richardson.

COMMENTS: Chapman cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and listed measurements for six males and four females in addition to the holotype. In addition to the birds Chapman measured, there are four specimens that would have been available to him but were either missexed or immature. These 14 specimens, all collected by William B. Richardson, are considered paratypes of aequatorialis: Barbacoas, AMNH 118356, immature sex?, 5 October 1912; Tumaco, AMNH 118357–118359, one male, one female?, one immature male, 28–30 July 1912; Esmeraldas, AMNH 119049–119054, three males, three females, 5 November to 1 December 1912; Manavi, AMNH 120246, male, 16 December 1912, AMNH 120247, male, 14 February 1913, AMNH 125225, ‘‘female’’ in male plumage, 7 March 1913; Daule, AMNH 125224, female, 28 April 1913. Of these AMNH 119053, female from Esmeraldas, was exchanged to ANSP in July 1928. Two additional specimens, AMNH 155194 and 155195, females, were collected by Richardson at Esmeraldas on 26 October and 4 December 1912, but these two specimens were not cataloged until August 1920, after aequatorialis was described, and they are not paratypes; one of these, AMNH 155194, was exchanged to MCZ in July 1928.

See Chapman (1917b: 49–50) for an account of Richardson’s expedition.

Notes

Published as part of LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, pp. 1-155 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381) on pages 56-57, DOI: 10.1206/832.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4611863

Files

Files (2.3 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:79c881a1839147357f688829f1fda5cb
2.3 kB Download

System files (20.0 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:a0dbd4485d446dd0ae607e2537852074
20.0 kB Download

Linked records

Additional details

References

  • Chapman, F. M. 1915. Diagnoses of apparently new Colombian birds, IV. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 34 (23): 635 - 662.
  • Hellmayr, C. E. 1937. Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands. Icteridae. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, Publication 381, Zoological Series, volume 13, Part 10, v + 228 pp.
  • Dickinson, E. C. (editor). 2003. The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world, 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 pp.
  • Fraga, R. M. 2011. Family Icteridae (New World blackbirds), species accounts. In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of the birds of the world, vol. 16, tanagers to New World blackbirds: 747 - 807. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 893 pp., 81 pls., photographs.
  • Paynter, R. A., Jr. 1997. Ornithological gazetteer of Colombia, 2 nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, ix + 537 pp., 2 maps.
  • Chapman, F. M. 1917 b. The distribution of birdlife in Colombia; a contribution to a biological survey of South America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 36: i-x, 1 - 729, 41 pls.