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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Rhodacanthis flaviceps
Rothschild
Rhodacanthis flaviceps
Rothschild, 1892: 111
(Kona,
Hawai
, Sandwich group).
Now
Rhodacanthis flaviceps
Rothschild, 1892
. See
Rothschild, 1900: 205
, pl. 69;
Amadon, 1950: 172–173
;
Greenway, 1968: 102
;
Olson, 1999
;
Dickinson, 2003: 758
; and
Pratt, 2005: 209–210
.
LECTOTYPE
:
AMNH 453640
, adult male, collected in the
Kona District
,
Hawaii
(5 Hawai) Island,
Hawaii
, on
1 October 1891
, by
Henry Palmer
(no. 1360).
From
the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS:
Rothschild
did not designate a type in the original description, describing adult male, adult female, and young male.
Hartert (1919a: 169)
noted that
Palmer
sent eight specimens and listed
Palmer’s
specimen no. 1360 as the type of
flaviceps
, thereby designating it the
lectotype
. A note by
Amadon
on a label added to the type: ‘‘
Unique–the
only ad. s of this extinct species ever collected,’’ and on the reverse someone has written: ‘‘
No
!
Is
one in
London’
’ (5
BMNH
). A male and a female are in
BMNH
from the Rothschild Bequest. The following
paralectotypes
, collected by
Palmer
on
Hawaii
Island
in 1891, are in
AMNH
: male,
AMNH 453641
(Palmer no. 1384), 6 October
;
females,
AMNH 453642
(1444), 19
October
,
AMNH 453643
(1421), 13
October
,
AMNH 453644
(1413), 10
October
,
AMNH 453645
(1383), 6
October. A
separate tag is attached to
AMNH 453644
: ‘‘skull, humeri, and one tarsus removed and skin remade by
J.P. Angle
,
USNM
. Skull replaced by cast’’ (see
Olson et al., 1987
)
.
Palmer’s diary (
Rothschild, 1900
: (Di)) indicated that on
1 October 1891
he was on the slopes of Mauna Loa. According to Munro’s journal, the
type
of
flaviceps
was almost certainly collected on 30 September (S. Olson, personal commun.). As noted by
Olson (1999: 16)
the dates written by Palmer on his labels did not necessarily refer to the date the specimen was actually collected, but might instead indicate the date the specimen was skinned or even the date when the label was written. Olson’s transcription of Munro’s journal often provided a more exact date of collection.
The species is extinct.
VIREONIDAE
CYCLARHINAE