Hirundo aequatorialis Lawrence

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 30

Hirundo aequatorialis Lawrence

Hirundo aequatorialis Lawrence, 1866: 400 ( Ecuador,

Quito).

Now Tachycineta albiventer (Boddaert, 1783) . See Hellmayr, 1935: 71, and Turner and Rose, 1989: 103.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 40227 , unsexed, collected in Quito (= Rio Napo, Hellmayr, 1935: 71), Ecuador. From the George N. Lawrence Collection.

COMMENTS: As accepted by Hellmayr (1935: 71, footnote) and Brooke (1974: 129), aequatorialis is the correct spelling of Lawrence’s name. The original spelling, aequitorialis , was a misspelling and was corrected on an errata sheet bound into volume 8 of the Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York (in which volume this name was first introduced) with the following statement: ‘‘p. 400, 6th line from the bottom, for aequitorialis read aequatorialis .’’ This fulfills the requirements of the Code (ICZN, 1999, Arts. 33.2 and 33.2.1, and earlier Codes) for an acceptable emendation, contra Parkes (1993: 119–120). See Petrochelidon rufocollaris aequatorialis for further discussion.

Lawrence (1866: 400) did not say how many specimens of this taxon he had but gave the locality as Quito , Ecuador. Four specimens came to AMNH with the Lawrence Collection ; this is the only one from Ecuador, and it bears a Lawrence type label .