Leucosticte kadiaka McGregor

• Main Author: LeCroy, Mary
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Aves; Passeriformes; Fringillidae; Leucosticte; Leucosticte kadiaka; Shackleton; Howell; Finch; Kodiak; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4627344; https://zenodo.org/record/4627344

Leucosticte kadiaka McGregor Leucosticte kadiaka McGregor, 1900 (1901): 8 (Karluk, Kadiak Island, Alaska). Now Leucosticte tephrocotis griseonucha (Brandt, 1842). See Hellmayr, 1938: 260; Howell et al., 1968: 260; Macdougall-Shackleton et al., 2000; Dickinson, 2003: 752; and Clement, 2010: 573. HOLOTYPE: AMNH 366294 , adult male, collected at Karluk, 57.33N, 154.32W (Times atlas), Kodiak (5 Kadiak) Island, Alaska, on 14 March 1897, by Cloudsley Ritter (no. 96). From the McGregor Collection (no. 3048) via the Johathan Dwight Collection (no. 37699). COMMENTS: McGregor gave his collection number of the holotype in the original description, which had been miscopied as 3047 on his label and changed to 3048. This is apparently the correct number as it is also present on the small field tag. The specimen bears, in addition to the field tag, McGregor’s collection label marked ‘‘TYPE’’ in red, a Dwight Collection label, and an AMNH type label. McGregor noted that his specimens were in such worn plumage that wing and tail measurements could not be made, and he gave average bill and middle toe measurements for four males from Kodiak Island. Perhaps he meant that his comparative material was worn, as there are five male specimens in AMNH, all in fresh plumage and apparently from the McGregor Collection, but only the holotype bears a label to that effect. The other four have bracketing numbers on the field label and were collected over the winter of 1896–1897 (one of them on the same date as the holotype). They are: AMNH 366290 (Dwight no. 37696, McGregor no. 3049), AMNH 366291 (37694, 3052), AMNH 366292 (37695, 3051), AMNH 366293 (37698, 3047). I see no way to determine which, if any, of these specimens served as McGregor’s paratypes. A footnote at the bottom of page 8 noted that ‘‘an author’s edition of 100 copies was distributed Nov. 25, 1900.’’ : 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 page 71, DOI: 10.1206/832.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4611863 : {"references": ["McGregor, R. C. 1900 (1901). New Alaskan birds. Condor [Bulletin of the Cooper Ornithological Club] 3 (1): 8.", "Hellmayr, C. E. 1938. Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands. Ploceidae - Catamblyrhynchidae - Fringillidae. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, Publication 430, Zoological Series, vol. 13, Part 11, vi + 662 pp.", "Howell, T. R. [New World]., R. A. Paynter, Jr. [Eurasian], and A. L. Rand [African]. 1968. Subfamily Carduelinae. In R. A. Paynter, Jr. (editor), Check-list of birds of the world, vol. 14: 207 - 306. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 433 pp.", "Macdougall-Shackleton, S. A., R. E. Johnson, and T. P. Hahn. 2000. Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch (Leucosticte tephrocotis). In A. Poole, and F. Gill (editors), The birds of North America, no. 559. Philadelphia: Birds of North America, Inc.", "Dickinson, E. C. (editor). 2003. The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world, 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 pp."]}