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Pseudonestor xanthophrys Rothschild 1893

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Pseudonestor xanthophrys Rothschild

Pseudonestor xanthophrys Rothschild, 1893b: xxxvi (Island of Mauai, Sandwich Islands).

Now Pseudonestor xanthophrys Rothschild, 1893. See Rothschild, 1900: 187–188, pl. 67; Amadon, 1950: 169; Greenway, 1968: 101; Dickinson, 2003: 758; Pratt, 2005: 257–259; and Pratt, 2010: 657.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 453557, adult male, collected on Maui (5 Mauai) Island, Hawaii (5 Sandwich Islands), on 4 August 1892, by Henry Palmer (no. 1690). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild did not designate a type in the original description, describing male and female without giving the number of his specimens. Hartert (1919a: 170) listed as the type of xanthophrys Palmer’s specimen no. 1690, thereby designating it the lectotype. It is marked ‘‘Type’’ and ‘‘Recd Jan. 1893 ’’ by Rothschild. The following paralectotypes, collected by Palmer on Maui in 1892, are in AMNH: AMNH 453558 (Palmer no. 1661), male, 3 August; AMNH 453559 (1744), male, 16 August; AMNH 453560 (1739), female, 15 August; AMNH 453561 (1665), female (‘‘type’’), 3 August; AMNH 453562 (1663), unsexed, 3 August; AMNH 453563 (1662), female, no date. AMNH 453558 is marked ‘‘Figured in book’’ and ‘‘pl. 30’’ of unknown significance. There may be other specimens in BMNH from the Rothschild Bequest. Rothschild (1893b: xxxv) also introduced the generic name Pseudonestor with P. xanthophrys the type species.

Rothschild (1900: 187–188) noted that Palmer had secured a small number of specimens of xanthophrys in July and August 1892 in the highest forest on ‘‘Haleopala.’’ Palmer’s diary (Rothschild, 1900: (Di)) indicated that 1–6 August he was camped at 5000 ft on his way to the crater of Mount Haleakala, 20.43N, 155.56W (Times atlas).

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 31-32, DOI: 10.1206/832.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4611863

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Biodiversity

Collection code
AMNH
Material sample ID
AMNH 453557
Event date
1892-08-04
Verbatim event date
1892-08-04
Scientific name authorship
Rothschild
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Fringillidae
Genus
Pseudonestor
Species
xanthophrys
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Pseudonestor xanthophrys Rothschild, 1893 sec. LeCroy, 2013

References

  • Rothschild, W. 1893 b. [On behalf of the Hon. Walter Rothschild, Mr. E. Hartert exhibited the type specimens of a new genus and species of Fringilline bird from the Sandwich Islands. Mr Rothschild proposed for it the name of Pseudonestor xanthophrys.] Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 1: xxxv-xxxvi.
  • Rothschild, W. 1900. The avifauna of Laysan and the neighbouring islands: with a complete history to date of the birds of the Hawaiian possessions. Part 3. London: R. H. Porter, xx + 127 - 320, (Di) 1 - (Di) 21, pls. 59 - 83.
  • Amadon, D. 1950. The Hawaiian honeycreepers (Aves, Drepaniidae [sic]). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 95 (4): 151 - 262, 23 figs., 15 tables, pls. 9 - 15.
  • Greenway, J. C., Jr. 1968. Drepanididae. In R. A. Paynter, Jr. (editor), Check-list of birds of the world, vol. 14: 93 - 103. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 433 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.
  • Pratt, H. D. 2005. The Hawaiian honeycreepers. Drepanidinae. Oxford: Oxford University Press, xxxii + 342 pp., 9 pls.
  • Pratt, H. D. 2010. Family Drepanididae (Hawaiian honeycreepers). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of the birds of the world, vol. 15, weavers to New World warblers: 618 - 659. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 879 pp., 60 pls., photographs.
  • Hartert, E. 1919 a. Types of birds in the Tring Museum. B. Types in the general collection. Novitates Zoologicae 26: 123 - 178.