Fringilla minuta Meyen, 1834a : 86

Mlíkovský, Jiří & Frahnert, Sylke, 2017, Type specimens and type localities of birds (Aves) collected during F. J. F. Meyen’s circumnavigation in 1830 – 1832, Zootaxa 4250 (1), pp. 1-22 : 15

Fringilla minuta Meyen, 1834a: 86 , pl. 12, fig. 2.

Now: Lonchura malacca jagori ( Martens, 1866) . See Cabanis (in Kutter 1882: 170, footnote), Stresemann (1922: 88), Salomonsen (1953: 267), Mayr et al. (1968: 381).

Lectotype (designated by Stresemann 1922: 88): ZMB 7133 ( Lichtenstein 1832, Nr. 39 or 86 sub “ Fringilla ”), skin, juv., collected by Meyen during 14–29 September 1831 (see below) at Manila, Luzon , Philippines.

Paralectotype (lost): ZMB uncatalogued ( Lichtenstein 1832, Nr. 39 or 86 sub “ Fringilla ”), skin, juv., collected by Meyen during 14–29 September 1831 (see below) at Manila, Luzon , Philippines. This specimen was probably exchanged or sold soon after receipt (see below).

Type locality. Meyen (1834a: 86) mentioned that the bird frequented “Zuckerplantagen auf der Insel Manila [sic]” (“sugar-cane plantations on the island of Luzon”). Such plantations were absent from Talim Island and the Jalajala Peninsula ( Meyen 1835), so the syntypes must have been collected at the city of Manila . We thus ascertain the type locality as Manila, Luzon, Philippines [14.60°N, 120.98°E]. Meyen’s itinerary indicates that both specimens must have been collected there during 14–29 September 1831 (see above).

Remarks. See under Emberiza guttata (above). M.H.C. Lichtenstein (1832) listed two specimens attributable to minuta , but only one was registered in the Inventory Catalogue of the ZMB, which means that one specimen was exchanged by M.H.C. Lichtenstein soon after receipt. Only one specimen of Meyen’s minuta was known from the ZMB in the 1880s (Cabanis in Kutter 1882) and in the 1920s ( Stresemann 1922).

Cabanis (in Kutter 1882: 170, footnote) and Stresemann (1922: 88) restudied the type of F. minuta Meyen in the ZMB, concluding that it is a juvenile Munia jagori Martens, 1866 [= Lonchura malacca jagori ( Martens, 1866) ]. Stresemann (1922: 88) observed that Fringilla minuta Meyen, 1834a antedates Munia jagori Martens, 1866 , and suggested that the form should be called Munia minuta (Meyen) . However, Fringilla minuta Meyen, 1834a , is a junior primary homonym of Fringilla minuta Temminck (1807: x) [= Carduelis flavirostris flavirostris Linnaeus, 1758 ] and of Fringilla minuta Wied (1830: 591) [= Sporophila sp. (see Allen 1899: 224)], and thus permanently invalid.