Nesomimus affinis Rothschild

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 affinis Rothschild

Nesomimus affinis Rothschild, 1898a: 53 (Narborough Island).

Now Nesomimus trifasciatus parvulus (Gould, 1837) . See Hellmayr, 1934: 335, and Davis and Miller, 1960: 448.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 504412 , adult male, collected on Isla Fernandina (= Narborough Island), 00°25′S, 91°30′W ( Paynter, 1993: 136), Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, on 6 December 1897, by Rollo H. Beck on the Webster­Harris Expedition (no. 2852). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Rothschild said that he had ‘‘a small series’’, but later Rothschild and Hartert (1899: 146) noted that six specimens were collected. Only five specimens (including the type) came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Hartert (1920: 478) designated the above specimen the lectotype. Paralectotypes in AMNH are AMNH 504413, collected by Beck, and AMNH 504414, 504418, and 504419, collected by Hull, all in 1897 on the Webster­Harris Expedition.

Brewer and MacKay (2001: 222) considered N. parvulus a full species.