L Scientific Publications of the American Museum of Natural History E CROY: AMNH TYPE SPECIMENS 11 OF BIRDS, PART American Museum Novitates TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE A MERICAN Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History MUSEUM OF NATUR AL HISTORY Publications Committee Robert S. Voss, Chair 11. PASSERIFORMES: PARULIDAE, DREPANIDIDAE, Board of Editors VIREONIDAE, ICTERIDAE, FRINGILLINAE, Jin Meng, Paleontology CARDUELINAE, ESTRILDIDAE, AND VIDUINAE Lorenzo Prendini, Invertebrate Zoology Robert S. Voss, Vertebrate Zoology Peter M. Whiteley, Anthropology MARY LECROY Managing Editor Mary Knight Submission procedures can be found at http://research.amnh.org/scipubs All issues of Novitates and Bulletin are available on the web from http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace Order printed copies from http://www.amnhshop.com or via standard mail from: American Museum of Natural History—Scientific Publications Central Park West at 79th Street New York, NY 10024 This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (permanence of paper). AMNH BULLETIN 381 On the cover: Lithograph by J.G. Keulemans of Loxops wolstenholmei Rothschild (1900: pl. 65), front and back views of the type and only specimen, named for Henry Palmer’s field assistant, Ted Wolstenholme, who collected it in the 2013 mountains of the Wailua district, Oahu, Hawaii. No others were seen. BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY PART 11. PASSERIFORMES: PARULIDAE, DREPANIDIDAE, VIREONIDAE, ICTERIDAE, FRINGILLINAE, CARDUELINAE, ESTRILDIDAE, AND VIDUINAE MARY LECROY Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Number 381, 155 pp. Issued September 26, 2013 Copyright E American Museum of Natural History 2013 ISSN 0003-0090 CONTENTS Abstract.......................................................... 3 Introduction . ...................................................... 3 Parulidae .......................................................... 4 Drepanididae . ..................................................... 25 Vireonidae........................................................ 33 Icteridae......................................................... 43 Fringillinae....................................................... 58 Carduelinae....................................................... 60 Estrildidae . ..................................................... 84 Viduinae........................................................ 127 Acknowledgments................................................. 127 References....................................................... 128 Index.......................................................... 146 2 ABSTRACT This 11th part of ‘‘Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History’’ includes taxa in the passerine families included in volume 14 of Peters’ Check-list of birds of the world (Paynter, 1968). The original description of each name has been consulted and the currently accepted name of the taxon has been listed with reference to recent publications. The coordinates and modern names of type localities are given when found and comments on taxonomic history are provided. In this part, 352 names are treated; for 20 of these, name- bearing types are not in AMNH or were not found. This part of the type list, as well as all previous parts, are searchable and available for download from the AMNH Library website (http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/). INTRODUCTION The Rothschild Collection has been housed at the American Museum of Natural This 11th part of ‘‘Type specimens of birds History since its purchase in 1932. In the in the American Museum of Natural Histo- older literature, specimens in that collection ry’’ deals with taxa covered in volume 14 of were said to be housed in the ‘‘Tring Peters’ Check-list of birds of the world Museum.’’ The bird collection of the Natural (Paynter, 1968). As did earlier parts (Green- History Museum (formerly the British Mu- way, 1973, 1978, 1987; LeCroy and Sloss, seum (Natural History), BMNH, London) is 2000; and LeCroy, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2010, now housed at Tring on the former Roth- 2011, 2012), this part follows the order of schild estate, and this is a source of possible Peters’ Check-list series, which is the basis for confusion. I have avoided the use of ‘‘Tring the arrangement of the AMNH collection. Museum’’ in relation to AMNH specimens Since the publication of this series, DNA from the Rothschild Collection. studies of the phylogeny of birds have greatly Most of the types from the Rothschild altered our understanding of avian relation- Collection that are covered in this part of the ships, about which there is as yet no type list were listed by Hartert (1918, 1919a, consensus of opinion. Some of these studies 1920, 1928). In these lists he was attempting have been referred to in the following pages. to ‘‘fix’’ the types, as the Rothschild Collec- Dickinson (2003) is the authority for most of tion was never cataloged. I have accepted the currently accepted names for taxa cov- his nomination of ‘‘types’’ as designation of ered herein, but a number of recent regional lectotypes in cases where original descriptions works, as well as families that have been implied syntypes, as has been done in all of covered in Handbook of the birds of the world the previous parts of the AMNH type list. (del Hoyo et al., 2010, 2011) are referred to. Rothschild purchased the G.M. Mathews The format for this part follows that for collection of birds, and Hartert had only begun the previous ones. The citation of the name to list the Mathews types separately when and of the type locality is first given exactly the collection came to AMNH. None of the as it appeared in the original description. In families in this part of the type list had been the text portion for each taxon, the name of covered. When Mathews published his 1912 the type locality has been updated when that list of Australian birds, he did so under the eye has changed, with the older name given in of Hartert, and his catalog number for most of parentheses, and coordinates in degrees and his types was given. Later, after he began his mintues are given when found. AMNH own publication ‘‘Austral Avian Record,’’ he numbers for specimens in the type series of became less and less likely to definitely identify each name are given in boldface type the first his intended type specimen, especially as he time they are mentioned. If the catalog rushed to publish the later volumes of ‘‘The number of a specimen is followed by ‘‘bis,’’ birds of Australia.’’ In some cases I have it has been inserted into the catalog between designated lectotypes for Mathews’ names two specimens that had been cataloged when he has indicated his choice by attaching previously. his type label or writing ‘‘Type’’ on his label. 3 4 BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 381 I have designated the following lectotypes MNHN Muse´um National d’Histoire in part 11: Fringilla spodiogenys koenigi, Naturelle, Paris, France Spinus citrinelloides kikuyensis, Pytelia melba MZB Museum Zoologicum Bogor- mosambica, Pyrenestes ostrinus rothschildi, iense, Cibinong, Java, Indonesia Munia bichenovii bandi, Poephila acuticauda NMV National Museum of Victoria, nea, Alisteranus cinctus vinotinctus, Poephila Melbourne, Australia gouldiae kempi, and Munia subcastanea. PNG Papua New Guinea Types that might be expected to be in RMCA Royal Museum for Central AMNH, but were either not found or were Africa, Tervuren, Belgium found to be elsewhere are listed in brackets. RMNH Nationaal Centrum Voor Biodi- Paratypes for taxa for which the primary type versiteit Naturalis (formerly or types are not in AMNH are usually not Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke listed. The reader is referred to earlier parts Historie), Leiden, the Nether- of this type list by LeCroy and Sloss (2000), lands and LeCroy (2003, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2011, SAMA South Australian Museum, Ade- 2012) for expanded explanation of the laide, South Australia introductory material. SMF Forschungsinstitut und Natur- The following acronyms are used in the museum Senckenberg, Frankfurt text: am Main, Germany UMMZ Museum of Zoology, University AM Australian Museum, Sydney, of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Australia USBGN United States Board on Geo- AMNH American Museum of Natural graphic Names, Washington, DC History, New York, NY USNM National Museum of Natural ANSP Academy of Natural Sciences, History, Washington, DC Philadelphia, PA YPM Yale Peabody Museum, Yale AOU American Ornithologists’ Union, University, New Haven, CT Washington, D.C. ZFMK Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut BIM Brooklyn Institute of Arts and und Museum A. Koenig, Bonn, Sciences (now Brooklyn Muse- Germany um), Brooklyn, NY ZMB Museum fu¨r Naturkunde, Zen- BMNH Natural History Museum, for- tralinstitut der Humboldt-Uni- merly British Museum (Natural versita¨t, Institut fu¨r Systema- History), Tring, UK tische Zoologie, Berlin CP Coleccion Phelps, Caracas, Ven- ZMO Zoologisk Museum, Oslo, Norway ezuela (formerly Christiania Museum) FMNH Field Museum of Natural Histo- ZSM Zoologische Staatssammlung, ry, Chicago, IL Munich, Germany ICZN International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature IES Instituto de Ecologia y Sistema´- PARULIDAE tica, Havana, Cuba MCZ Museum of Comparative Zoolo- The recent comprehensive phylogenetic gy, Harvard University,