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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Himatione wilsoni
Rothschild
Himatione wilsoni
Rothschild, 1893c
: xlii (Island of Mauai).
Now
Hemignathus virens wilsoni
(Rothschild, 1893)
. See
Rothschild, 1900: 137–138
, pl. 59;
Amadon, 1950: 165
;
Greenway, 1968: 97
;
Olson and James, 1995
; American Ornithologists’
Union, 1998: 673–674
;
Dickinson, 2003: 758
;
Pratt, 2005: 240–243
; and
Pratt, 2010: 657
.
LECTOTYPE
:
AMNH 453159
, male, collected on
Maui
(5 Mauai) Island,
Hawaii
, on
17 July 1892
, by
Henry Palmer
(no. 1650).
From
the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS:
Rothschild
did not designate a type or enumerate his specimens in the original description, describing both male and female and giving the range as
Maui Island
. Rothschild’s
statement that ‘‘the types of
C. wilsoni
were shot by
Palmer
on the 14
July on Maui’
’ does not serve to designate a
lectotype
.
Hartert
(1919: 171) listed
Palmer’s
specimen no. 1650 as the type, thereby designating it the
lectotype
.
The
following
paralectotypes
, collected by Palmer on Maui in 1892, are in
AMNH
:
AMNH 453160
(Palmer’s no. 1644), male, 16 July
;
AMNH 453161
(1651), male,
AMNH 453162
(1759), female,
AMNH 453163
(1753), male, 17 July
;
AMNH 453164
(1757), female, 17 August
;
AMNH 453165
(1778), female, 6 October
;
AMNH 453166
(1795), female, 30 October
;
AMNH 453167
(1755), unsexed,
AMNH 453168
(1761), female,
AMNH 453169
(1758), female,
AMNH 453170
(1760), female, 17 August
;
AMNH 453171
(1642),
AMNH 453172
(1643), females, 14 July
;
AMNH 453173
(1695), female, 7
August,
AMNH 453174
(–), unsexed and undated;
AMNH 454598
(1654), male, 18 July. This last specimen has no melanin in the feathers and is entirely yellow and white, but Palmer mentioned in his diary (
Rothschild, 1900
: Di 9) that the iris, bill, and legs of this specimen were of normal color; it had been shot on the evening of 17 July. Other specimens may be in BMNH as part of the Rothschild Bequest. AMNH 453357 was originally identified by Rothschild as
Oreomyza newtoni
and only later corrected to
H. v. wilsoni
. It is not a
paralectotype
of
wilsoni
.
In mid-July 1892, Palmer’s diary (
Rothschild, 1900
: (Di)) indicated that he was camped north of Olinda,
20.48N
,
156.16W
(Times atlas) on his way to Mount Haleakala.
In addition to
Himatione
and
Hemignathus
,
wilsoni
has been listed in at least the following genera:
Chlorodrepanis
(
Rothschild, 1900: 137
,
Mathews, 1930: 810
),
Loxops
(Amadon: 1950: 165), and
Viridonia
(
Greenway, 1968: 97
)
. For a discussion of the history of the generic name
Hemignathus
, see
Olson and James (1995)
.
Pratt (2010: 657)
treated
wilsoni
as a full species.