Certhidea albemarlei Ridgway

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 : 42-43

Certhidea albemarlei Ridgway

Certhidea albemarlei Ridgway, 1894: 360 (Albemarle Island).

Now Certhidea olivacea olivacea Gould, 1837 . See Hellmayr, 1938: 144, and Dickinson, 2003: 796.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 522446 , unsexed, collected on Isabela (5 Albemarle) Island, 00.30S, 91.06W ( Paynter, 1993), Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, on 21 July 1891. From the Baur Collection (no. 633, not 595) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description,

Ridgway said that the type was collected on Albemarle Island on 21 July 1891 by Baur and cited Baur’s number as ‘‘595.’’ Hartert (1919: 172) noted that this number should be ‘‘633’’ and was mistakenly given by Ridgway. AMNH 522446 bears three labels: an unnumbered USNM type label with the name filled in by Ridgway, Rothschild type label with the number ‘‘633’’ and reference to the original description, and a USNM collection label with the number ‘‘633,’’ Albemarle, July 21, and (b-2), the significance of which is unknown. The original label is not present. Because no specimen bearing Baur’s no. 595 came to AMNH, because AMNH 522446 bears the USNM type label filled in by Ridgway, and because Hartert called attention to the error, AMNH 522446 is accepted as the holotype of Certhidea olivacea albemarlei . There are two paratypes that came to AMNH: AMNH 522447, and AMNH 522448, both males, collected at La Tortuga, Isabela Island, in July 1891 by Baur. Another specimen mentioned in the original description, collected at Cowley Bay, East Isabela, on 10 August, as quite like the type, did not come to AMNH. It would also be a paratype.