Molothrus bonairensis aequatorialis Chapman, 1915

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 : 56-57

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https://doi.org/10.1206/832.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4627324

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scientific name

Molothrus bonairensis aequatorialis Chapman
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Molothrus bonairensis aequatorialis Chapman

Molothrus bonairensis aequatorialis Chapman, 1915: 661 (Barbacoas, Narino, southwestern Colombia).

Now Molothrus bonairensis aequatorialis Chapman, 1915 . See Hellmayr, 1937: 66; Blake, 1968: 197; Dickinson, 2003: 773; and Fraga, 2011: 786–787.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 118355 About AMNH , adult female, collected at Barbacoas, 01.41N, 78.09W GoogleMaps

( Paynter, 1997), Nariño, southwestern Colombia, on 5 August 1912, by William B. Richardson.

COMMENTS: Chapman cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and listed measurements for six males and four females in addition to the holotype. In addition to the birds Chapman measured, there are four specimens that would have been available to him but were either missexed or immature. These 14 specimens, all collected by William B. Richardson, are considered paratypes of aequatorialis: Barbacoas , AMNH 118356 About AMNH , immature sex?, 5 October 1912 ; Tumaco , AMNH 118357–118359 About AMNH , one male, one female?, one immature male, 28–30 July 1912 ; Esmeraldas, AMNH 119049–119054 About AMNH , three males, three females, 5 November to 1 December 1912 ; Manavi , AMNH 120246 About AMNH , male, 16 December 1912, AMNH 120247 About AMNH , male, 14 February 1913, AMNH 125225 About AMNH , ‘‘female’’ in male plumage, 7 March 1913 ; Daule , AMNH 125224 About AMNH , female, 28 April 1913. Of these AMNH 119053 About AMNH , female from Esmeraldas, was exchanged to ANSP in July 1928. Two additional specimens, AMNH 155194 About AMNH and 155195, females, were collected by Richardson at Esmeraldas on 26 October and 4 December 1912, but these two specimens were not cataloged until August 1920, after aequatorialis was described, and they are not paratypes ; one of these, AMNH 155194 About AMNH , was exchanged to MCZ in July 1928 .

See Chapman (1917b: 49–50) for an account of Richardson’s expedition.

Chapman, F. M. 1915. Diagnoses of apparently new Colombian birds, IV. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 34 (23): 635 - 662.

Chapman, F. M. 1917 b. The distribution of birdlife in Colombia; a contribution to a biological survey of South America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 36: i-x, 1 - 729, 41 pls.

Dickinson, E. C. (editor). 2003. The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world, 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 pp.

Fraga, R. M. 2011. Family Icteridae (New World blackbirds), species accounts. In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of the birds of the world, vol. 16, tanagers to New World blackbirds: 747 - 807. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 893 pp., 81 pls., photographs.

Hellmayr, C. E. 1937. Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands. Icteridae. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, Publication 381, Zoological Series, volume 13, Part 10, v + 228 pp.

Paynter, R. A., Jr. 1997. Ornithological gazetteer of Colombia, 2 nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, ix + 537 pp., 2 maps.

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

ANSP

Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

MCZ

Museum of Comparative Zoology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Icteridae

Genus

Molothrus

SubGenus

Molothrus