Acanthis carduelis africanus Hartert

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 : 69

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/832.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4627338
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scientific name	Acanthis carduelis africanus Hartert
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Acanthis carduelis africanus Hartert, 1903: 69 (Mhoiwla bei Mazagan in Marokko).

Now Carduelis carduelis parva Tschusi, 1901 View in CoL . See Hartert, 1919a: 156; Vaurie, 1959: 608; Thévenot et al., 2003: 432–434; Dickinson, 2003: 751; Fry and Keith, 2004: 541–543; and Clement, 2010: 561–562.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 710336 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Mhoiwla , near Mazagan, 33.15N, 08.30W ( Thévenot et al., 2003), Morocco, on 1 February 1902, by F.W. Riggenbach (no. 78). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert cited Riggenbach’s no. 78 for the holotype and said that he had 17 specimens collected by Riggenbach and himself in Morocco, five from Tunis, one from Aguilas, Spain, and others from Algiers. The following paratypes, collected prior to 1903, came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection: Mhoiwla, AMNH 710337–710341 About AMNH , five males, February and May 1902, by Riggenbach, AMNH 710345 About AMNH , female, 8 April 1901, by Hartert ; Tunis, AMNH 710391 About AMNH , sex?, 19 April 1858, from the Jardine Collection. Spain, Alguilas, AMNH 710326 About AMNH , male, 3 February 1898, Gray Coll .