Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae
Author
LeCroy, Mary
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Quiscalus fortirostris
Lawrence
Quiscalus fortirostris
Lawrence, 1868: 360
(Barbadoes)
.
Now
Quiscalus lugubris fortirostris
Lawrence, 1868
. See
Hellmayr, 1937: 87
; Blake, 1968: 193;
Dickinson, 2003: 774
; and
Fraga, 2011: 779
.
SYNTYPES
:
AMNH 42098
, female,
AMNH 42099
, male, collected on
Barbados
(5 Barbadoes)
Island
, West Indies, undated, by A.H. Alexander. From the George N. Lawrence Collection.
COMMENTS:
Lawrence
described both male and female in the original description
and said that the
types
were in his collection. Both of these specimens are marked ‘‘Type’’ by
Lawrence
, and they are the only two specimens of this form in AMNH from the
Lawrence
Collection. A.H. Alexander was a
New York
taxidermist (
Wynne, 1969: 4
) from whom
Lawrence
received specimens on occasion.