Passer montanus subsp. obscuratus Jacobi 1923
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
Description
Passer montanus obscuratus Jacobi
Passer montanus obscuratus Jacobi, 1923: 32 (Mittlerer Jangtsze von oberhalb Hankóu bis Hsinlungtan; Mintal zwischen Jatschóu und Sungpan, Mittelchina).
Now Passer montanus saturatus Stejneger, 1885. See Vaurie, 1956: 8–17; 1959: 578–579; Dickinson, 2003: 717; and Summers-Smith, 2009: 804–805.
SYNTYPE: AMNH 718215, adult female, collected at Hsien-lung-tan, Yangtse rapids (= Schnelle, as on label), Sichuan, China, on 27 February 1919, by Hugo Weigold on the Walter Stötznerschen Expeditionen. From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Jacobi did not designate a type in the original description, but said that he had six males, four females, and four juveniles; he gave the range as ‘‘Mittelchina, Prov. Hupeh und Szetschwan.’’ Of these, the above specimen came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. The original label was marked ‘‘Cotypus.’’ Hartert did not list this syntype in any of his lists of types in the Rothschild Collection. Vaurie (1959: 378) first recognized it as a syntype, and it was probably he who had the AMNH type label added. In addition, there were five syntypes in SNSD, of which three were lost in WWII, and one in BMNH (Eck and Quaisser, 2004: 307).
Vaurie (1959: 578–579) synonymized obscuratus with iubilaeus, and Dickinson (2003: 717) considered iubilaeus a synonym of saturatus, citing Cheng (1987: 938). There seems to be an error in Summers-Smith (2009: 804) as he recognized obscuratus but gave the range as ‘‘ Nepal E to NE India,’’ which does not include the type localities of obscuratus.
Wiegold (1922: VI) noted that Hsien-lungtan was on the Yangtse below Wan-hsien, 30.54N, 100.14E (Times Atlas).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- Rothschild
- Material sample ID
- AMNH 718215
- Event date
- 1919-02-27
- Verbatim event date
- 1919-02-27
- Scientific name authorship
- Jacobi
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Passeridae
- Genus
- Passer
- Species
- obscuratus
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Type status
- syntype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Passer montanus subsp. obscuratus Jacobi, 1923 sec. Lecroy, 2014
References
- Jacobi, A. 1923. Zoologische Ergebnisse der Walter Stotznerschen Expeditionen nach Szetschwan, Osttibet und Tschili auf Grund der Sammlungen und Beobachtungen Dr. Hugo Weigolds. 2. Teil. Aves: 4. Fringillidae und Ploceidae. Abhandlungen und Berichte der Museen fur Tierkunde und Volkerkunde zu Dresden 16 (1): 22 - 37.
- Vaurie, C. 1956. Systematic notes on Palearctic birds. No. 24. Ploceidae: the genera Passer, Petronia, and Montifringilla. American Museum Novitates 1814: 1 - 27.
- Vaurie, C. 1959. The birds of the Palearctic fauna. Passeriformes. London: H. F. & G. Witherby Ltd., xii + 762 pp.
- Dickinson, E. C. 2003. The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world, 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 pp.
- Summers-Smith, J. D. 2009. Family Passeridae (Old World Sparrows), species accounts. In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott and D. Christie (editors). Handbook of the birds of the world. Vol. 14, Bush shrikes to Old World sparrows: 793 - 813. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 893 pp, 51 pls., photographs.
- Eck, S., and C. Quaisser. 2004. Verzeichnis der Typen der Vogelsammlung des Museums fur Tierkunde in den Staatlichen Naturhistorischen Sammlungen Dresden. Zoologische Abhandlungen 54: 233 - 316.
- Cheng, T. - H. [Zheng, Z-X]. 1987. A synopsis of the avifauna of China. Beijing: Science Press, xvi + 1222 pp.