Fringillaria insularis Ogilvie-Grant and Forbes

LeCroy, Mary, 2012, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 10. Passeriformes: Emberizidae: Emberizinae, Catamblyrhynchinae, Cardinalinae, Thraupinae, And Tersininae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2012 (368), pp. 1-125 : 6

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Fringillaria insularis Ogilvie-Grant and Forbes, 1899: 2 (sea level to 3500 feet, Socotra).

Now Emberiza tahapisi tahapisi A. Smith, 1836 View in CoL . See Dickinson, 2003: 778, Fry and Keith, 2004: 574–577, and Kirwan, 2007: 143–144.

SYNTYPES: Collected on Hadibu Plain , ca. 12.36N, 53.59E (Times Atlas), Socotra, Yemen: AMNH 716956 About AMNH , adult male, on 13 December 1898 GoogleMaps ; AMNH 716957 About AMNH , adult male, on 15 December 1898 ; AMNH 716958 About AMNH , adult

male, on 15 December 1898. Collected at Adho Dimello (5 Adho Dimellus), 3500 ft, 12.33N, 54.03E (G.M. Kirwan, personal commun.), Socotra, Yemen, AMNH 716959 About AMNH , immature male, on 6 February 1899 GoogleMaps ; AMNH 716960 About AMNH , female, on 15 February 1899, on the joint Liverpool Museum and British Museum expedition to Socotra (field nos. 136, 151, 150, 394, and 440, respectively). From the Rothschild Collection .

COMMENTS: Ogilvie-Grant and Forbes described both male and female in the original description but did not designate a type or say how many specimens they collected, only noting that insularis occurred from sea level to 3500 ft. Later, Ogilvie-Grant and Forbes (1903: pl. 3, fig. 2) illustrated it, but again did not give the number of specimens. Warren and Harrison (1971: 262) reported that the authors’ selected male and female syntypes and other syntypes were in BMNH. The above specimens are also syntypes. Dickinson (2003: 778) and Fry and Keith (2004: 574– 577) recognized E. t. insularis , but the recent study by Kirwan (2007) did not support recognition of insularis .

References

Fry, C. H. and G. S. Keith (editors). 2004. The birds of Africa, vol. VII. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, xxi + 666 pp.

Kirwan, G. M. 2007. Studies of Socotran birds IV. Synonymization of six endemic bird taxa, with comments on the name Onychognathus blythii creaghi. Sandgrouse 29: 135 - 148, 11 pls.

Ogilvie-Grant, W. R., and H. O. Forbes. 1899. The expedition to Socotra. 1. Descriptions of the new species of birds. Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums 2: 1 - 3.

Ogilvie-Grant, W. R., and H. O. Forbes. 1903. Zoology of Sokotra and Abd-el-Kuri. Birds. In H. O. Forbes (editor), The Natural History of Sokotra and Abd-el-Kuri, pp. 21 - 72. London: Henry Young and Sons, 598 pp.

Warren, R. L. M., and C. J. O. Harrison. 1971. Type-specimens of birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume 2. Passerines. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), 628 pp.