Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae
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LeCroy, Mary
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Molothrus minimus
Dalmas
Molothrus minimus
Dalmas, 1900: 138
(Ile de
Tobago
).
Now
Molothrus bonariensis minimus
Dalmas, 1900
. See
Hellmayr, 1937: 57–59
; Blake, 1968: 197– 198;
Dickinson, 2003: 773
; and
Fraga, 2011: 786–787
.
SYNTYPE
:
AMNH 521003
, adult male, collected on
Tobago Island
,
Trinidad and Tobago
, in 1898, by Comte de Dalmas. From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Dalmas, in the original description, did not say how many specimens he had but described the male, female, and young. Rothschild bought part of the Dalmas Collection, other parts going to Munich and Paris (
Hartert, 1919a: 151
; Hellmayr, 1931: 163;
Phelps, 1945: 333
). Specimens that Rothschild purchased bear labels printed ‘‘E Museo Dalmas,’’ as this
syntype
does. Other
syntypes
, if extant, may be in one of the other collections. The original tag on this specimen is stamped
Tobago
1898, and on the reverse is written: ‘‘
Molothrus
n. sp.
, s.’’
Dalmas (1900: 132)
noted that he was on
Tobago
in the months of
November and December 1898
. A separate small tag bears the number ‘‘110.1.13’’ of unknown significance. A wing measurement of the male was given by Dalmas as ‘‘112 [mm],’’ but I measure it as
102 mm
, indicating a misprint in Dalmas’ account. Six additional males from
Tobago
in AMNH had wing measurements of
98–101 mm
.