Palmeria mirabilis Rothschild

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, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 25-26

Palmeria mirabilis Rothschild

Palmeria mirabilis Rothschild, 1893f: 113 (Island of Mauai).

Now Palmeria dolei (Wilson, 1891) . See Rothschild, 1893e: ix; Rothschild, 1900: 149–150, pl. 60; Amadon, 1950: 174; Greenway, 1968: 95; Dickinson, 2003: 759; Pratt, 2005: 264–267; and Pratt, 2010: 658.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 453041 , adult male, collected on Maui (5 Mauai) Island, ca. 20.45N, 156.15W, Hawaii, in September 1892, by Henry Palmer (no. 1764). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild did not designate a type in the original description or indicate how many specimens he examined but gave the range as Maui Island. Hartert (1919a: 171), by citing Palmer’s unique field number ‘‘1764’’ for the above specimen, designated it the lectotype ; it had been marked ‘‘ Type’ ’ by Rothschild. The following paralectotypes, all collected by Palmer on Maui, are in AMNH: AMNH 453042 (Palmer no. 1766), male, 26 September 1892 ; AMNH 453043 (1763), male, 26 September 1892 ; AMNH 453044 (1748), male, 16 August 1892 ; AMNH 453045 (1725), immature female, 13 August 1892 ; AMNH 453046 (1726), immature male, 13 August, 1892 ; AMNH 453047 (1746), female, 16 August 1892 ; AMNH 453048 (1747), immature female, 16 August 1892 ; AMNH 453049 (1723), female, 16 August 1892 ; AMNH 453050 (–), unsexed, no date ; AMNH 453051 (1787), male, Olinda, 31 October 1892 ; AMNH 453052 (1790), male, Olinda, 31 October 1892 ; AMNH 453053 (1788), male, Olinda, 31 October 1892 ; AMNH 453054 (1786), female, Olinda , 31 October 1892. Other specimens may be in BMNH as part of the Rothschld Bequest .

Rothschild (1893f: 113) had considered mirabilis a species in the Meliphagidae and had described the genus Palmeria at the same time. He ( Rothschild, 1893e: ix) soon realiz- ed his error and noted that mirabilis was a synonym of Himatione dolei , which should be placed in his genus Palmeria . Wilson and Evans (1890 –1899: 15–16, unnumbered pl.) discussed and illustrated this species.

In August and September, Palmer ( Rothschild, 1900: (Di)) was on the slopes of Mt. Haleakala, 20.43N, 156.10 W (Times atlas).