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Edward C. Dickinson et al. 293 Zoological Bibliography 2019 5(6) A study of d’Orbigny’s “Voyage dans l’Amerique Meridionale” VI. Type specimens based on plate captions: bibliographic evidence applied 1 Edward C. Dickinson, Renata Stopiglia, Jérôme Fuchs, Patrick Boussès, Jeremiah Trimble & Christophe Gouraud COPYRIGHT: © 2019 Dickinson, Stopiglia, Fuchs, Boussès, Trimble & Gouraud. This is an open‐ access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. ABSTRACT: The 66 colour plates of birds provided, in the ‘Atlas’, to supplement the 4th volume of d’Orbigny’s “Voyage dans l’Amérique Méridionale” included 132 images of birds representing 128 taxa. A number of these birds were new to science. Where a plate is published before any descriptive text, a captioned scientific name together with the image in the plate make a new name available, and as such is the original combination. However, in such a situation the specimen depicted is a holotype (unless more specimens are depicted together, when they are syntypes; but there can then be no other name‐bearing types). We discuss here the 55 supposedly new taxa named in captioned plates that were published before the descriptive texts for the species. Searching for potential holotypes to identify – complicated by an old policy for disposing of duplicates – we found most in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris. Some are in Boston (acquired as part of Lafresnaye’s collection), and a few candidate specimens have been located elsewhere. Each candidate specimen located has been photographed so that the interested institutions could compare each specimen with the original colour plate. Competing claims have been discussed and resolved; where necessary a third party has arbitrated on any lingering dispute. We recognise that our recommendations may require future review, if other potential holotypes are located. KEYWORDS: Alcide d’Orbigny, François Massena Duc de Rivoli, South America, colour plates, plate captions, images, identification, types, holotype by monotypy, museum registers, museum catalogues, exchanges, collection atrophy, the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (Paris), Museum of Comparative Zoology (Harvard), Academy of Natural History of Philadelphia, Zoological Institute (St. Petersbourg), Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Naturalis) Leiden. 1 This paper was preceded, in this series and this volume, by “I. The Voyage and the evidence from Sherborn & Griffin (1934)”, by “II. On the composition of the 1837 and 1838 volumes of the Magasin de Zoologie”, by “III. A correction in respect of the split of the 1837 volume of the Magasin de Zoologie”, by “IV. New avian names deriving from d’Orbigny’s expedition with evidence for their first introduction, and necessary corrections to authorship, dates and citations”, and by “V. Necessary corrections to data from the “Index Animalium”. ISSN 2045–4651 5A544346‐8E34‐45D2‐947F‐D4D0B74FD1AB Published 27 February 2019 Edward C. Dickinson et al. 294 Zoological Bibliography 2019 5(6) TABLE OF CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION 1. Bibliography .......................................................................................................................................... 297 2. The application of the rules of nomenclature ................................................................................... 297 3. Collection management 3.1. Common ground ....................................................................................................................... 299 3.2. The Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris 3.2.1. Collection receipt and the early registers .................................................................... 299 3.2.2. Specimen registration in the early registers ............................................................... 301 3.2.3. Cataloguing: the Catalogue Générale ............................................................................. 307 3.2.4. Cataloguing: the Ancien Catalogue ............................................................................... 307 3.2.5. Cataloguing: the Nouveau Catalogue ............................................................................ 308 3.2.6. Registers for donations and exchanges ....................................................................... 308 3.2.7. The public galleries, the zoothèque and mounts .......................................................... 310 3.3. The Museum of Comparative Zoology, Boston (MCZ) ....................................................... 311 3.4. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Drexel University (formerly the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia) (ANSP) ............................................................................ 312 4. Type collections and the MNHN type collection in particular ....................................................... 313 TYPE SPECIMENS REPRESENTING BIRDS DEPICTED IN THE PLATES IN THE VOYAGE DANS L’AMÉRIQUE MÉRIDIONALE General comments .................................................................................................................................... 315 An introduction to the structure of the list below ................................................................................ 316 Geranoaetus polyosoma polyosoma (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) [syn. Buteo tricolor d’Orbigny, 1836] ....................................................................................................... 318 Aeronautes montivagus montivagus (d’Orbigny, 1838) ................................................................................... 319 Aeronautes andecolus andecolus (d’Orbigny, 1838) .......................................................................................... 320 Phalcoboenas megalopterus (Meyen, 1834) [syn. montanus d’Orbigny, 1835] ............................................................................................................. 321 Picumnus albosquamatus albosquamatus d’Orbigny, 1841 .............................................................................. 322 Colaptes rupicola rupicola d’Orbigny, 1841 ...................................................................................................... 323 Colaptes rubiginosus canipileus (d’Orbigny, 1841) ........................................................................................... 324 Campephilus leucopogon (Valenciennes, 1826) [syn. atriventris d’Orbigny, 1841] ............................................................................................................ 324 Melanerpes cactorum (d’Orbigny, 1841) ........................................................................................................... 325 Picoides fumigatus fumigatus (d’Orbigny, 1841) .............................................................................................. 327 Veniliornis lignarius (Molina, 1782) [syn. puncticeps d’Orbigny, 1841] ............................................................................................................ 327 Veniliornis nigriceps nigriceps (d’Orbigny, 1841) ............................................................................................ 329 Aulacorhynchus coeruleicinctis d’Orbigny, 1841 .............................................................................................. 329 ISSN 2045–4651 5A544346‐8E34‐45D2‐947F‐D4D0B74FD1AB Published 27 February 2019 Edward C. Dickinson et al. 295 Zoological Bibliography 2019 5(6) Corythopis delelandi (Lesson, 1831) [syn. nigrocincta d’Orbigny, 1836] ........................................................................................................... 330 Knipolegus striaticeps (d’Orbigny, 1838) .......................................................................................................... 331 Muscisaxicola maculirostris maculirostris d’Orbigny, 1838 ............................................................................. 332 Muscisaxicola rufivertex rufivertex d’Orbigny, 1838 ....................................................................................... 333 Muscisaxicola maclovianus mentalis d’Orbigny, 1838 ..................................................................................... 335 Myrmotherula axillaris fresnayana (d’Orbigny, 1836) ..................................................................................... 336 Thamnophilus caerulescens aspersiventer d’Orbigny, 1835 .............................................................................. 338 Phlegopsis nigromaculata nigromaculata (d’Orbigny, 1836) ............................................................................ 339 Pyriglena leuconota maura (Ménétries, 1835) [syn. aterrimus d’Orbigny, 1835] ............................................................................................................. 340 Pteroptochos tarnii (P.P. King, 1831) [syn. ruficeps d’Orbigny, 1836] ................................................................................................................ 341 Scelorchilus rubecula rubecula (von Kittlitz, 1830) [syn. rufogularis d’Orbigny, 1836] ........................................................................................................... 342 Formicarius analis analis (d’Orbigny, 1836) ....................................................................................................
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