Extinct and endangered (‘ E & E’) birds in the ornithological collection of the Museum of Zoology of Torino University, Italy
Author
Ghiraldi, Luca
Author
Aimassi, Giorgio
text
Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club
2019
2019-03-15
139
1
28
45
journal article
298440
10.25226/bboc.v139i1.2019.a2
27f5c2ae-1d4d-4f0e-b33a-13620b3d69df
2513-9894
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SOUTH
ISLAND
PIOPIO
Turnagra capensis
Tanagra capensis
Sparrman, 1787
MZUT
AV2962; previously mounted; unsexed adult;
New Zealand
, no date; purchased by F. Defilippi for
MZUT
, in 1846.
MZUT
AV4244
; previously mounted; unsexed adult;
New Zealand
, no date; purchased in Milano by
G. Gené
for
MZUT
, in
September 1844
.
Remarks
.—Filippo Defilippi (1814–67) succeeded G. Gené as head of the Zoological Museum of Torino, of which he was director in 1848–67. It is probable that at least
MZUT
AV4244 has the same provenance as one of
two specimens
in the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano (no. 12968, unsexed, mounted, from ‘Nov. Zealand’). Based on a manuscript catalogue produced by Defilippi, we know that it was purchased from L. Colombo in 1844 (
Violani
et al
. 1984
).