Molothrus occidentalis Berlepsch and Stolzmann

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 : 57

Molothrus occidentalis Berlepsch and Stolzmann

Molothrus occidentalis Berlepsch and Stolzmann, 1892: 378 ( Peru occ. (Lima etc.)).

Now Molothrus bonariensis occidentalis Berlepsch and Stolzmann, 1892 . See Hartert, 1919a: 137; 1928: 192–193; Hellmayr, 1937: 66–67; Blake, 1968: 197; Dickinson, 2003: 773; and Fraga, 2011: 786–787.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 521045 , male, collected at Lima, 12.03S, 77.03W ( Stephens and Traylor, 1983), Peru, on 10 November 1889, by J. Kalinowski (no. 258) ; AMNH 521046 , female, collected at Lima, Peru, on 18 October 1889, by J. Kalinowski (no. 179) ; AMNH 521047 , female, collected at Lima, Peru, on 6 October 1889, by J. Kalinowski (no. 140). From the Rothschild Collection .

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description, Berlepsch and Stolzmann describing male and female and noting only that Kalinowski had collected ‘‘nombreux exemplaires; octobre et novembre 1889, janvier 1890.’’ Hartert (1919a: 137) at first listed only the adult male specimen as a cotype (5 syntype), giving its Kalinowski no. 258, and it is marked ‘‘Typus’’ on the original label. This specimen came to AMNH bearing a Rothschild type label and was cataloged at that time as the type. Hartert (1928: 192–193) later added the female collected on 18 October as a syntype, but it bears no Rothschild type label; it is also marked ‘‘Typus’’ on the original label. AMNH 521047 was not listed by Hartert and is not marked ‘‘Typus,’’ but is part of the same series and should also be considered a syntype. AMNH type labels have been added to the two additional syntypes. There are four more syntypes in MIZ (Mlíkovsky´, 2009: 128).