Loxigilla violacea
date: label: Collection Date
content: 14 Apr 1963
name: label: Collector
content: A. Schwartz
label: Collector
content: R. Thomas
notes: label: Notes
content: Thanks so much for looking these up and sending the photo. My conclusion is that the bird (USNM 510973) has a larger bill, is supposedly an immature, and has a red supercilium, so I think it is a Greater Antillean Bullfinch. However, as Jeff said, I suspect that the locations and dates that were recorded in the log were switched for 510972 and 510973. Greater Antillean Bullfinch are normally found in the Dominican Republic and Lesser Antillean Bullfinch are found in St. Lucia. When Schwartz wrote articles about his work in these years, he talks of finding Greater Antillean Bullfinches in islands off the coast of Hispaniola, but does not say anything about a GAB in St. Lucia. Per email from Bob Guth.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Apr 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Dauphin Quarter, La Sorciere, North Slope, Dauphin, St. Lucia, North America
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content: Vertebrate Zoology
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content: Birds
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Loxigilla violacea
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Birds Division
identifier: label: Other Numbers
content: Field Number : 66
label: USNM Number
content: 510973
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Aves, Passeriformes, Emberizidae, Emberizinae
physicalDescription: label: Preparation
content: Fluid: Whole
label: Sex
content: unknown
label: Stage
content: Juvenile