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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Passer domesticus halfae
Meinertzhagen
Passer domesticus halfae
Meinertzhagen, 1921: 67
(Wadi Halfa)
.
Now
Passer domesticus niloticus
Nicoll and Bonhote, 1909
. See
Hartert, 1928: 198
;
Dickinson, 2003: 716
; and
Summers-Smith, 2009: 793–794
.
LECTOTYPE
:
AMNH 718632
, adult male, collected on
Wadi Halfa
,
21.55N
,
31.20E
(Times Atlas),
Sudan
, on
21 February 1904
, from the
N.C. Rothschild
,
Henley
, and
Wollaston Collection. From
the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: When Meinertzhagen named this form, he noted that the type was a male in the Rothschild Collection from
Wadi Halfa
and that he measured five males. Six males, all with the same data, came to
AMNH
with the
Rothschild Collection
;
none of the original labels is marked ‘‘type’’ by Meinertzhagen.
AMNH 718632
bears the Rothschild type label, indicating that it was the intended type, and it was so cataloged at
AMNH
. Therefore, in order to remove the ambiguity associated with all specimens bearing the same data, I hereby designate
AMNH 718632
the
lectotype
of
Passer domesticus halfae
.
The
five
paralectotypes
are:
AMNH 718633–718637
, all males,
Wadi Halfa
,
21 February 1904
, from the
N.C. Rothschild
,
Henley
, and
Wollaston Collection
.