Regulus regulus inermis Murphy and Chapin

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 : 75

Regulus regulus inermis Murphy and Chapin

Regulus regulus inermis Murphy and Chapin, 1929: 15 (Pico Island, Azores).

Now Regulus regulus inermis Murphy and Chapin, 1929 . See del Hoyo et al., 2006: 348.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 222332 , adult male, collected on Pico Island , 38.28N, 28.25W (Times Atlas), Azores, on 22 July 1927, by José G. Correia (no. 336).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. In their type series, Murphy and Chapin had a total of 46 specimens from Santa Maria, Terceira, Pico, Fayal, San Jorge, and Flores islands, Azores. Included were specimens in the BMNH and José and Virginia Correia’s specimens from 1921–1922 and 1927. Paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 168690–168692 (Fayal, 1922), AMNH 168892 and 168893 (Fayal, 1921), AMNH 222331 and 222333–222335 (Pico, 1927), and AMNH 222336 and 222337 (Fayal, 1927). Specimens from the Rothschild Collection are not paratypes, as they only came to AMNH in 1932.

See Päckert et al. (2003) and Päckert and Martens (2004) for cytochrome b and song dialect studies.