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 . 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.