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
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MAGENTA PETREL
Pterodroma magentae
CR
AEstrelata magentae
Giglioli & Salvadori, 1869
MZUT
AV6689
; mount; unsexed adult;
southern Pacific Ocean
,
39°38’S
,
125°58’W
,
22 July 1867
; collected during the
Magenta
voyage
.
Remarks
.—The
holotype
of
AEstrelata magentae
Giglioli & Salvadori, 1869
, which species went unobserved for a century following its description (
Crockett 1994
,
Imber
et al
. 1998
). Although the population of
P. magentae
is slowly recovering, the species is restricted to a single colony of 150–200 individuals on the
Chatham Islands
, east of
New Zealand
(BirdLife
International 2018
). Specimens are very rare in museum collections: in addition to the
holotype
, Te Papa Tongarewa (Museum of
New Zealand
) holds an adult male and a juvenile (https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/topic/2802) and the
Canterbury
Museum,
New Zealand
, a fourth specimen (Pacific Ocean,
ante
1910), misidentified until 2008 as Tahiti Petrel
Pseudobulweria rostrata
(
Lawrence
et al
. 2008
)
.