Fringilla coelebs subsp. ombriosa Hartert 1913
Creators: name: LeCroy, Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Fringillidae
Fringilla
Fringilla coelebs
Fringilla coelebs ombriosa hartert

description: Fringilla coelebs ombriosa Hartert
Fringilla coelebs ombriosa Hartert, 1913: 78 (Island of Hierro (Ferro)).
Now Fringilla coelebs ombriosa Hartert, 1913. See Vaurie, 1959: 593; Mayr, 1968: 202; Dickinson, 2003: 746; Fry and Keith, 2004: 453; and Clement, 2010: 513–514.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 709989, adult male, collected on Hierro Island, 27.45N, 18.00W (Times atlas), Canary Islands, Spain, on 16 February 1903, by Captain Polatzek. From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert designated as type a male specimen collected by Polatzek on Hierro Island on 16
February 1903; the above specimen is the only male specimen collected on that date. Hartert did not say how many specimens he examined. The following eight specimens came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection and are paratypes: Hierro Island, males, AMNH 709986, 30 January 1903, AMNH 709987, 26 January 1903, AMNH 709988, 5 February 1903, AMNH 709990, February 1905; females, AMNH 709991, February 1905, AMNH 709992, 5 February 1903, AMNH 709993, 12 February 1903, AMNH 709994, 16 February 1903.
Fringilla spodiogenys koenigi Rothschild and
Hartert
Fringilla spodiogenys koenigi Rothschild and Hartert, 1893: 97 (Marokko).
Now Fringilla coelebs africana Levaillant, 1850. See Hartert, 1904a: 128; Hartert 1919a: 156; Vaurie, 1959: 593; Fry and Keith, 2004: 452– 454; and Clement, 2010: 513–514.
LECTOTYPE: AMNH 709803, adult male, collected in Morocco (5 Marokko), on 5 April 1884. From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description, the authors stating that they measured four males and three females from Morocco. Rothschild and Hartert (1894: 76) later added that they had, since the description, seen additional material from Morocco, but only the original seven specimens comprise the type series. The only locality within Morocco mentioned in the original description was Tangiers (5 Tanger) in relation to the female specimens. Later, Hartert (1919a: 156), designated as lectotype the male specimen from Tangiers, collected on 5 April 1884, by Olcese, from the Bartlett Collection, ex Wilh. Schlüter. AMNH 709803 bears the Rothschild type label with the number ‘‘7167’’ (not elsewhere cited), locality of ‘‘Tanger’’ and reference to the original description; on the original label it is sexed as a male, collected 5 April 1884 in Morocco. It bears an original number ‘‘7167c’’ of unknown significance and is marked ‘‘Type’’ in hand unknown, without further information about the collector. The fact that Hartert did not cite the number ‘‘7167’’ of his intended type has led to ambiguity in this designation, as there are two males bearing the date 5 April 1884. In order to remove this ambiguity, I hereby designate Hartert’s intended type, AMNH 709803, the lectotype of Fringilla spodiogenys koenigi Rothschild and Hartert, 1893, as it has without question always been considered the type. There are six paralectotypes in AMNH, all marked as collected by Olcese: AMNH 709805, [male], Tanger, Morocco, collected 5 April 1884; AMNH 709806, male, Tanger, Moroc, no date, ‘‘3f,’’ marked ‘‘Cotype’’ by Hartert; AMNH 709807, [male], Tanger, Moroc, no date; AMNH 709808, male, Maroc, no date, ‘‘3e’’; AMNH 709810, [male], Tangiers, Morocco, no date; AMNH 709811, female, Maroc, no date, ‘‘ 3g,’’ marked ‘‘type of ♀ ’’ by Hartert. The specimens listed above as [male], bore an upside-down female symbol, and Rothschild and Hartert apparently based their designation of four males and three females on the results of their measurements. I consider all of them paralectotypes of koenigi.
The information concerning the provenance of the type of koenigi, ‘‘Ex. Coll. Bartlett, ex. Wilh. Schlüter’’ (Hartert, 1919a: 98), must have been information known to him but not appearing on any of the labels.
There are two additional specimens of koenigi that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection: AMNH 709804 came to Rothschild from the Museum Boucard, and AMNH 709809, came to him from the Museum of Henry H. Slater. I do not consider these specimens paralectotypes.
description: Published as part of LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, pp. 1-155 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381) on pages 58-59, DOI: 10.1206/832.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4611863