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 text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 2014-12-30 2014 393 1 165 journal article 7639 10.1206/885.1 48769858-fe3b-415b-9ac8-3feeb42a9bae 0003-0090 4629954 Sturnus vulgaris granti Hartert Sturnus vulgaris granti Hartert, 1903d: 43 (Graciosa) . Now Sturnus vulgaris granti Hartert, 1903 . See Hartert and Ogilvie-Grant, 1905: 127–128 ; Hartert, 1919: 136 ; Vaurie, 1959: 127 ; Amadon, 1962a: 107 ; Cramp et al., 1994: 257 ; Dickinson, 2003: 656 ; and Craig and Feare, 2009: 723– 725 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 665677 , adult male, collected south of Santa Cruz da Graciosa , 39.06N , 28.01W (Times Atlas ), Graciosa Island , Azores , on 22 April 1903 , by W.R. Ogilvie-Grant (no. 446). From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Hartert gave Ogilvie-Grant’s unique field number for the holotype in the original description and listed the islands in the Azores from which he had specimens. The island of Fayal was not listed, and a Santa Cruz occurs on two of the islands, with Flores Island not listed. However, the entire collection was shipped at one time ( Hartert and Ogilvie-Grant, 1905: 91 ) and was undoubtedly in hand when granti was published in November 1903 . Ogilvie-Grant’s expedition was financed by Rothschild and the collection was divided between Rothschild and BMNH ( Hartert and Ogilvie-Grant, 1905: 81 ). Hartert and Ogilvie-Grant (1905: 127–128) listed the number of specimens of granti collected on each island for a total of 20 specimens . Ten specimens, including the holotype , came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection; the nine paratypes , all collected in 1903, are: above Rosario, Corvo I., AMNH 665672 (Ogilvie-Grant no. 363), male, 14 April; above Santa Cruz, Flores I., AMNH 665673 (408), male, 17 April; above Horta, Fayal I., AMNH 665674 (672), female, 26 May; above Caes da Pico, Pico I., AMNH 665675 (634), male, 21 May; above Calheta, San Jorge I. (= St. George), AMNH 665676 (568), male, 9 May; Requinho, Terceira I., AMNH 665678 (351), male, 9 April; Lameiro, San Miguel I., AMNH 665679 (108), male, AMNH 665680 (96), female, 9–10 March; Almagrera, Santa Maria I., AMNH 665681 (6), female, 27 February. The remaining paratypes are probably in BMNH.