Phylloscopus collybita exsul Hartert

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 59

Phylloscopus collybita exsul Hartert

Phylloscopus collybita exsul Hartert, 1907e: 505 (Lanzarote (östliche Canaren)).

Now Phylloscopus canariensis exsul Hartert, 1907 . See Helbig et al., 1996, Dickinson, 2003: 589, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 651.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 449560 , adult male, collected on Lanzarote Island, Canary Islands, on 22 December 1903, by ‘‘ Hauptmann’ ’ Polatzek (no. 2223). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert cited Polatzek’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description and noted that he had seven specimens, all of which came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. The six paratypes are: AMNH 449557–449559 and 449561–449563. These were all obtained from Polatzek, but AMNH 449557 and 449558 were collected by Thanner.

As a result of their mitochondrial cytochome b analysis, Helbig et al. (1996) found Canary Islands populations of Phylloscopus collybita to be highly distinct and recommended that they be recognized as a distinct species.