Fringilla teydea polatzeki Hartert

Fringilla teydea polatzeki Hartert, 1905b: 164 (Gran Canaria) .

Now Fringilla teydea polatzeki Hartert, 1905 . See Vaurie, 1959: 596; Mayr, 1968: 206; Dickinson, 2003: 746; Fry and Keith, 2004: 453; and Clement, 2010: 514–515.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 710024, adult male, collected on Grand Canary Island, Canary Islands, Spain, on 1 May 1905, by Captain Polatzek. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert gave the number of the holotype as ‘‘No. 1505, im Rothschildschen Museum.’’ This number had been added to Polatzek’s label and was apparently contrived by Hartert from the date of collection, as the Rothschild specimens were not cataloged. His other specimens do not bear numbers. Hartert gave measurements for four males, however, five males in addition to the holotype came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection and I have considered all of them paratypes of polatzeki: Grand Canary Island, AMNH 710020, 24 April, AMNH 710021, 24 April, AMNH 710022, 26 April, AMNH 710023, 1 May, AMNH 710025, 1 August, all collected by Polatzek in 1905.

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