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Conirostrum ornatum Lawrence

  • 1. Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History (lecroy @ amnh. org)

Description

Conirostrum ornatum Lawrence

Conirostrum ornatum Lawrence, 1851: 112 (no locality given).

Now Auriparus flaviceps ornatus (Lawrence, 1851). See Webster, 1999: 3, and Madge, 2008: 74.

SYNTYPE: AMNH 39401, unsexed, collected at Brownsville, 25.54N, 97.30W (Times Atlas), Texas, USA, no date, by Capt. J.P. McCown. From the G.N. Lawrence Collection.

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description, Lawrence only saying that he examined two specimens; the above specimen is the only one in AMNH from the Lawrence Collection that was collected before the publication of ornatum, undoubtedly in 1850 when McCown was stationed at Brownsville (Mearns and Mearns, 1992: 301). It is illustrated in Lawrence (1851: pl. 5, fig. 1). The original label is not with this specimen; on the Lawrence label, the number 300 appears, the significance of which is unknown. The publication date of this form is often given as 1852 (e.g., Snow, 1967b: 69); although it was included in volume 5 of the Annals of the Lycaeum of Natural History of New York, dated 1852, the description of ornatum was in part 3, issued in May 1851 (Foster, 1892: 2, and LeCroy, personal observation).

Notes

Published as part of Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, pp. 1-178 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333) on page 65

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Lawrence
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Thraupidae
Genus
Conirostrum
Species
ornatum
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Lawrence, G. N. 1851. Descriptions of new species of birds of the genera Conirostrum, D'Orb. et Lafr., Emberangra, Less. and Xanthornus, Briss., together with a list of other species not heretofore noticed as being found within the limits of the United States. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 5: 112 - 117.
  • Webster, M. D. 1999. Verdin Auriparus flaviceps. In A. Poole and F. Gill (editors), The birds of North America: No. 470. Philadelphia: The Birds of North America, Inc.
  • Madge, S. C. 2008. Family Remizidae (pendulinetits). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christis (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, volume 13: 52 - 75. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 880 pp., 60 pls., 536 photographs.
  • Mearns, B., and R. Mearns. 1992. Audubon to Zantus. The lives of those commemorated in North American bird names. London: Academic Press, 588 pp.
  • Snow, D. 1967 b. Family Remizidae. In R. A. Paynter, Jr. (editor), Check-list of birds of the world. Volume 12: 62 - 70. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 495 pp.
  • Foster, L. S. 1892. Bibliographies of American naturalists: IV. The published writings of George Newbold Lawrence, 1844 - 1891. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 40: vii - xi, 1 - 124.