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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Erythrospiza githaginea amantum
Hartert
Erythrospiza githaginea amantum
Hartert, 1903: 89
(Oliva, Fuertaventura)
.
Now
Bucanetes githagineus amantum
(
Hartert, 1903
)
. See Hartert, 1919: 158; Vaurie, 1956: 3– 5;
Vaurie, 1959: 626–627
;
Howell et al., 1968: 263
;
Dickinson, 2003: 753
; and Clement, 2010: 578.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 712386
, adult male, collected at
Oliva
,
28.36N
,
13.53W
(Times atlas),
Fuerteventura
(5 Fuertaventura) Island,
Canary Islands
, on
22 March 1899
, by
Ramon Gomez
(no. 1211).
COMMENTS: Hartert cited Gomez’s number of the
holotype
in the original description. He gave wing measurements for multiple males, giving no total number, and said that
amantum
occurred on Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, and Gran Canaria islands. The
followiing specimens in
AMNH
, collected before the publication of
amantum
in
May 1903
, are considered
paratypes
:
AMNH 712387
,
712388
,
712390
,
712391
,
712398
, two males and three females, collected at
Oliva
,
Fuerteventura Island
,
4–18 March 1889
, by
Gomez
;
AMNH 712402
, male, collected on
Lanzarote Island
, on
24 March 1902
by
Polatzek
.