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Journal of the National Museum (Prague), Natural History Series Vol. 178 (5): 17-180; published on 3 November 2009 ISSN 1802-6842 (print), 1802-6850 (electronic) Copyright © Národní muzeum, Praha, 2009 Types of birds in the collections of the Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland. Part 3: South American birds Jiří Mlíkovský Department of Zoology, National Museum, Václavské náměstí 68, CZ-115 79 Praha 1, Czech Republic; e-mail: [email protected] ABSTR A CT . The Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (MIZ) cur- rently contains types of 258 species of South American birds, incl. 103 holotypes. Holotypes of further 45 species-group taxa, and all syntypes of further 51 species-group taxa were lost in the past. Further 10 species-group taxa are represented only by paratypes in the MIZ. Publications and/or label data indicated that the MIZ has types of further 36 species-group taxa, but a restudy showed that these specimens have no type status. In addition, specimens deposited in the MIZ were found labeled with 33 unpublished species-group names, which have no standing in zoological nomenclature and the relevant specimens have no type status. A restudy of the available material and relevant publications led to the following results: (1) Type series of Podiceps taczanowskii Berlepsch & Sztolcman, Pseudocolaptes boissennautii flavescens Taczanowski & Berlepsch, and Geothlypis aequinoctialis peruviana Taczanowski were found to include specimens from different taxa. Accordingly, lectotypes were designated to fix the taxonomic meaning of these names. (2) The following taxa were synonymized: Elainea squamiceps Taczanowski and Elainea gracilis Taczanowski with Elainea chiriquensis albi­ vertex Pelzeln, Empidonax minor Sztolcman with Legatus leucophaius leucophaius (Vieillot), Campylorhamphus procurvoides brasilianus Sztolcman with Campylorhamphus falcularius (Vieillot), and Buarremon tacza nowskii Sclater & Salvin with Atlapetes schistaceus mystacalis (Taczanowski). (3) Spelling of [Thamnophilus caerulescens] melanchrous Sclater & Salvin was corrected (from melanochrous). (4) A subspecies of the Fork-tailed Woodnymph should be known as Thalurania furcata tschudii Gould, not as Thalurania furcata jelskii Taczanowski. (5) Ecuadorian Yellow-bellied Seedeaters should be known as Sporophila nigricollis olivacea (Berlepsch & Taczanowski), not as Sporophila nigricollis vivida (Hellmayr). (6) The author of Pseudocolaptes boissonneautii is Lesson, not de Lafresnaye. (7) The author of the follow- ing species-group taxa is Berlepsch alone, not Berlepsch and Taczanowski: Calliste pulchra, Chlorophanes spiza exsul, Dendrornis erythropygia aequatorialis, Gouldia conversi aequator ialis, Parula pitiayumi pacifica, Turdus ignobilis maculirostris, and Vireosylvia chivi griseo barbata. (8) Type series were defined for many species-group nominal taxa. (9) Publication dates were corrected for many species-group names. KEYWORDS . Museum of Zoology, Warszawa, Aves, types, nomenclature, South America 17 INTRODUCTION This is a third installment of the catalogue of the types of birds in the collections of the Museum and Institute of Zoology (MIZ) of the Polish Academy of Sciences (see Mlíkov­ ský 2007a,b, for previous parts), which covers birds described on the basis of specimens from South America. The MIZ houses no type specimens of birds from Central and North America. The structure of species accounts and working procedures were described in detail by Mlíkovský (2007a). When a nominal species was explicitly based on a holotype and no paratypes were listed, the holotype is listed in species accounts without further notice. Otherwise, the size and composition of the type series is discussed in each case. History General history of the Museum and its ornithological collections was described by ­Kazubski­ (1996);­ see­ also­ Sztolcman­ (1921),­ Wąsowska­ &­ Winiszewska-Ślipińska­ (1996), and Mlíkovský (2007a). The following part of the history is related to the birds of South America. Most Neotropical birds in the MIZ were collected by Polish collectors and naturalists in 1865­1934. A few other type specimens of South American birds, supplied to the MIZ by Berlepsch and Sclater, were collected by other persons (see the ‘Collectors’ section below). Polish collecting activities were started by Konstanty Jelski in French Guiana (1865­1869). Most subsequent collections were made in Peru (K. Jelski in 1870­1875, Jan Sztolcman in 1875­1885, Jan Kalinowski in 1891­1930, and Arkady Fiedler in 1934)1, and south­eastern Brazil (Tadeusz Chrostowski in 1911­1923). Additional collections were made in Ecuador (Jan Sztolcman and co­workers in 1878 and 1882), Argentina (Józef Siemiradzki in 1891), and Bolivia (Jan Kalinowski in 1896). Note that Rio Uaçá was in French Guiana when K. Jelski collected there in 1869, but lies now in Brazil. For details on collecting expeditions see below. South­American­birds­sent­to­Warszawa­by­Polish­collectors­were­first­described­by­ Jean­Cabanis­in­the­Berlin­Museum­(Cabanis­1873a,b,c,­1874;­see­also­Mlíkovský­&­ Frahnert 2009a), mainly on the basis of “doubles” sent to him by Taczanowski from Warszawa,­and­by­Philip­Lutley­Sclater­(Sclater­1874,­1879,­1886,­Sclater­&­Salvin­1875a),­ who received from Taczanowski specimens for examination, but Taczanowski started soon to describe the collections himself (Taczanowski 1875, 1878, 1879, 1880a,b,c,d, 1882a,b­1883,­1884a,b,­1886a,b2,­1889,­Taczanowski­&­Sztolcman­1882,­Berlepsch­&­ Taczanowski­1884a,b,­Taczanowski­&­Berlepsch­1885).­Taczanowski’s­work­has­been­ continued by Jan Sztolcman, who himself made three collecting expeditions to Peru and Ecuador­in­1875-1885­(Taczanowski­&­Sztolcman­1882,­Berlepsch­&­Sztolcman­1892,­ 1894a,b, 1896, 1901, 1902, 1906). During 1883­1906, both Taczanowski and Sztolcman closely cooperated with Hans von Berlepsch, which resulted in a number of joint papers (Berlepsch­ &­ Taczanowski­ 1884a,b,­ Taczanowski­ &­ Berlepsch­ 1885,­ Berlepsch­ &­ 1­ ­See­Franke­(2007)­for­the­siginificance­of­Polish­naturalists­for­Peruvian­ornithology. 2 For the history of Taczanowski’s (1884a,b, 1886a,b) Ornithologie de Pérou see Daszkiewicz (2005). 18 Sztolcman 1892, 1894a,b, 1896, 1901, 1902, 1906). Sztolcman then ceased to publish on Neotropical birds, but Tadeusz Chrostowski started to report on his own ornithologi­ cal work in Paraná, Brazil (Chrostowski 1912, 1921a,b). Next MIZ ornithologist inter­ ested in Neotropical birds was Janusz Domaniewski, who also seems to have revived Sztolcman’s­ interest­ in­ Neotropical­ birds­ (Domaniewski­ 1918,­ 1925a,b,­ Sztolcman­ &­ Domaniewski­1918a,b,­1922,­1927,­Domaniewski­&­Sztolcman­1918,­1922).­For­some­ reason, Domaniewski did not continue to study Neotropical birds after Sztolcman‘s death in 1928, but Andrzej Dunajewski started to work on them in the late 1930s (Dunajewski 1938, 1939, 1948; note that the latter paper was published posthumously). The onset of the World War II interrupted Polish taxonomic studies of Neotropical birds in late 1939, which were not resumed thus far. Authors The following authors named South American birds on the basis of specimens (exclud­ ing paratypes) formerly or currently deposited in the MIZ. Number of species­group taxa (“species”) described by each author on the basis of these specimens is given in parenthe­ ses. Only names available for the purposes of zoological nomenclature were counted. Berlepsch, Hans von (1850­1915): German ornithologist (133). Cabanis, Jean (1816­1906): German ornithologist (14). Chrostowski, Tadeusz (1878­1923): Polish ornithologist (1). Domaniewski, Janusz (1891­1954): Polish ornithologist (17). Dunajewski, Andreas (1908­1944): Polish ornithologist (7). Godman, Frederick DuCane (1834­1919): British zoologist (1). Hellmayr, Carl Eduard (1878­1944): Austrian­German ornithologist (3). Leverkühn, Paul (1867­1905): German ornithologist (1). Philippi, Rudolf Amandus [or Rodolfo Amando] (1808­1904): German­chilean zoologist (1). Salvadori, Tommaso (1835­1923): Italian ornithologist (1). Salvin, Osbert (1835­1898): British zoologist (2). Sclater, Philip Lutley (1829­1913): British zoologist (6). Sharpe, Richard Bowdler (1847­1909): British ornithologist (1). Sztolcman, Jan (1854­1928): Polish ornithologist (155). Taczanowski,­Władysław­(1819-1890):­Polish­zoologist­(151). Wolters, Hans­Edmund (1915­1991): German ornithologist (1). Collectors The following persons collected specimens of birds in South America, upon which spe­ cies­group taxa were later based. All data are related to specimens formerly or currently deposited in the MIZ. Brief itineraries are added. Reconstructed itineraries were used to add collection dates of specimens, where these dates were missing (see ‘Systematic list’ below); all such dates are given in [brackets]. Note that Taczanowski often wrote <and> instead of <through> in giving collection months, which follows from a comparison of his papers with label data. For example, “January and March” could mean “January through March” in his writings. 19 Countries­are­abbreviated­in­the­following­list­using­official­three-letter­acronyms­(ISO­ 3166­1), as follows: ARG = Argentina, BOL = Bolivia, BRA = Brazil, ECU = Ecuador, GUF = French Guiana, PER = Peru. Bartlett, Edward (1836­1908): English ornithologist. Behn, Wilhelm Friedrich Georg (1808­1878): German naturalist. Chrostowski, Tadeusz (1878­1923): Polish ornithologist. Made three expeditions to the state of Paraná, Brazil, in 1910­1911,
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    The Auk 116(4):891-911, 1999 PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF THE NEST ARCHITECTURE OF NEOTROPICAL OVENBIRDS (FURNARIIDAE) KRZYSZTOF ZYSKOWSKI • AND RICHARD O. PRUM NaturalHistory Museum and Department of Ecologyand Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas,Lawrence, Kansas66045, USA ABSTRACT.--Wereviewed the tremendousarchitectural diversity of ovenbird(Furnari- idae) nestsbased on literature,museum collections, and new field observations.With few exceptions,furnariids exhibited low intraspecificvariation for the nestcharacters hypothe- sized,with the majorityof variationbeing hierarchicallydistributed among taxa. We hy- pothesizednest homologies for 168species in 41 genera(ca. 70% of all speciesand genera) and codedthem as 24 derivedcharacters. Forty-eight most-parsimonious trees (41 steps,CI = 0.98, RC = 0.97) resultedfrom a parsimonyanalysis of the equallyweighted characters using PAUP,with the Dendrocolaptidaeand Formicarioideaas successiveoutgroups. The strict-consensustopology based on thesetrees contained 15 cladesrepresenting both tra- ditionaltaxa and novelphylogenetic groupings. Comparisons with the outgroupsdemon- stratethat cavitynesting is plesiomorphicto the furnariids.In the two lineageswhere the primitivecavity nest has been lost, novel nest structures have evolved to enclosethe nest contents:the clayoven of Furnariusand the domedvegetative nest of the synallaxineclade. Althoughour phylogenetichypothesis should be consideredas a heuristicprediction to be testedsubsequently by additionalcharacter evidence, this first cladisticanalysis
  • Northern Peru, B

    Northern Peru, B

    MANU EXPEDITIONS BIRDING TOURS [email protected] www.Birding-In-Peru.com Painting Scarlet-banded Barbet A TRIP REPORT FOR A FOCUSED BIRDING TRIP TO NORTH PERU September 3-9 2012 Trip Leader and report redaction: Barry Walker With: Ken Petersen, Ron and Sue Johns, John Lobel & William Tucker A quick foray into North Peru on a special “clean up trip” searching for certain species - and we had to rush a little bit but we successfully saw some very good species indeed including Scarlet-banded Barbet, Long-whiskered Owlet, Varzea Thrush, Marvelous Spatuletail, Pale-billed Antpitta, Rusty-tinged & Ochre-fronted Antpittas, Roraiman Flyctacher, Cinnamon-breasted Tody-Flycatcher, Fiery-throated, Scarlet-breasted and Scaled Fruiteaters, Grey-tailed Piha, Mishana Tyrannulet, Foothill Schiffornis & Bar- winged Wood-Wren . Despite unusual sun for this time of year at Abra Patricia and low flock activity there we managed to see a wide variety of the special birds of this endemic area including 35 species of Hummingbirds most seen very well at feeding stations, record 15 true Peruvian endemic and many other range restricted species including several near endemics. DAY BY DAY ACTIVITIES September 2: Arrive in Lima an dinner near the hotel September 3: Flight to Tarapoto and the Scarlet-banded Barbet Camp. On arrival we met our drivers & field chef Aurelio. We then drove by bus and then specially modified Toyota 4 x 4 pickups for several hours to the Barbet Camp where we arrived just in time as a huge rainstorm hit the camp – no harm done – a 3 course dinner concluded the day.