Quiscalus fortirostris Lawrence

Quiscalus fortirostris Lawrence, 1868: 360 (Barbadoes) .

Now Quiscalus lugubris fortirostris Lawrence, 1868 . See Hellmayr, 1937: 87; Blake, 1968: 193; Dickinson, 2003: 774; and Fraga, 2011: 779.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 42098, female, AMNH 42099, male, collected on Barbados (5 Barbadoes) Island, West Indies, undated, by A.H. Alexander. From the George N. Lawrence Collection.

COMMENTS: Lawrence described both male and female in the original description

and said that the types were in his collection. Both of these specimens are marked ‘‘Type’’ by Lawrence, and they are the only two specimens of this form in AMNH from the Lawrence Collection. A.H. Alexander was a New York taxidermist (Wynne, 1969: 4) from whom Lawrence received specimens on occasion.