Nesomimus carringtoni

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 : 127

Nesomimus carringtoni [sic] Rothschild

Nesomimus carringtoni [sic] Rothschild, 1898b: 7 (Barrington Island, Galapagos).

Now Nesominus trifasciatus barringtoni Rothschild, 1898. See Hellmayr, 1934: 336, and Davis and Miller, 1960: 448.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 504351 , adult male, collected on Isla Santa Fé (= Barrington Island), 00°49′S, 90°04′W ( Paynter, 1993: 18), Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, on 7 October 1897, by Rollo H. Beck on the Webster­Harris Expedition (no. 1540). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1920: 478) designated the above specimen the lectotype by citing Beck’s field number. Rothschild (1898b: 7) was said to have ‘‘a pair of a new Nesomimus ’’ with him when he described this new form at a meeting of the British Ornithologists’ Club, and the description was of a male and a female, with measurements given of only two birds. These two specimens were syntypes. Later, Rothschild and Hartert (1899: 145) said that eight specimens had been collected, all of which came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Five of the specimens were sexed as females. Perhaps AMNH 504355 is the paralectotype, as it is the only specimen in addition to the lectotype that has the new name written in ink on the field label. This may indicate that they were the two specimens Rothschild had with him at the meeting. The other specimens in the series are AMNH 504352–504354 and 504356– 504358.

The original spelling of this name was a typographical error, and Hartert (1920: 478) said that ‘‘to avoid confusion [the spelling] was never altered.’’ However, the mistake was actually corrected in the same volume of the Bulletin of British Ornithologists’ Club, in ‘‘Errata et Corrigenda’’ on the reverse of the unnumbered ‘‘Preface’’ page for volume 8, dated 20 August 1899.

Brewer and MacKay (2001: 222) considered barringtoni a subspecies of N. parvulus .