Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae
Author
Lecroy, Mary
Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
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Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax barbarus
Vaurie
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax barbarus
Vaurie, 1954a: 1
(North Africa (
Morocco
to
Algeria
) and Canaries (La Palma Island only).
Now
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax barbarus
Vaurie, 1954
. See
Blake and Vaurie, 1962: 259
;
Fry et al., 2000: 568–570
;
Dickinson, 2003: 512
; and
dos Anjos, 2009: 615–616
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 290240
, adult male, collected on the
Plateau
,
1900 m
,
Middle Altas Mountains
,
Morocco
, on
27 April 1929
, by
E. Hartert
and
E. Flükiger
(no. 302).
From
the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Vaurie gave the AMNH number of the
holotype
in the original description, and (on p. 3) noted that he measured
22 specimens
from
Morocco
,
Algeria
, and the Canaries. There are
23 specimens
in addition to the type, all marked
barbarus
by Vaurie, and I have considered all
of them
paratypes
:
Morocco
,
AMNH 290241– 290245
,
675670–675675
,
675681
,
675682
, eight males, five females
;
Canaries
,
AMNH 675668
,
675669
, two males
;
Algeria
,
AMNH 675683–675690
, seven males, one female. The individuals with lower catalog numbers were in a group of specimens presented to
AMNH
by Rothschild in 1920
.