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 text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 2014-12-30 2014 393 1 165 journal article 7639 10.1206/885.1 48769858-fe3b-415b-9ac8-3feeb42a9bae 0003-0090 4629954 Passer hemileucus Ogilvie-Grant and Forbes Passer hemileucus Ogilvie-Grant and Forbes, 1899: 3 ( Island of Abd-el-Kuri). Now Passer hemileucus Ogilvie-Grant and Forbes, 1899 . See Ogilvie-Grant and Forbes, 1903: 58– 59 , pl. 7, fig. 1 ; Dickinson, 2003: 716 ; Kirwan, 2008: 83–93 ; and Summers-Smith, 2009: 799 . SYNTYPE : AMNH 719511, male, collected on Abd al-Kuri (= Abd-el-Kuri) Island (between Somalia and Socotra ), on 22 February 1899 , by W.R. Ogilvie-Grant (no. 480). From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Ogilvie-Grant and Forbes did not designate a type or enumerate their specimens in the original description. Later, Ogilvie-Grant and Forbes (1903: 58–59) noted that they had collected three males and one female on Abd al Kuri. They had visited the island twice, 3–5 December 1898 and 22–23 February 1899 ( Forbes, 1903 : xxiv–xxxi). The AMNH specimen had not been recognized as a syntype previously. A male and a female syntype are in BMNH ( Warren and Harrison, 1971: 234 ) and a male syntype is in LIVCM (no. 31.12.1900.163, collected 5 December 1898 , T. Parker, personal commun.). Species limits within the Passer motitensis complex have been variously treated (see Kirwan, 2008 , for a summary). Summers- Smith (2009: 709) considered P. insularis to form a superspecies with P. iagoensis , P. cordofanicus , P. shelleyi , P. rufocinctus , and P. motitensis , with hemileucus a subspecies of P. insularis . However, Kirwan (2008) , as a result of his extensive morphological study of specimens of Passer insularis and Passer hemileucus , pointed out that differences between these two forms are greater than had been previously appreciated and that they should be considered species. Dickinson et al. (2011: 190) drew attention to the incorrect dating of this name by Moreau and Greenway (1962: 15) , who have been followed by most subsequent authors.