Geospiza darwini Rothschild and Hartert

• Main Author: LeCroy, Mary
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Aves; Passeriformes; Thraupidae; Geospiza; Geospiza darwini; Galapagos; Beck; The Beak; Rothschild; Darwin Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5470373; https://zenodo.org/record/5470373

Geospiza darwini Rothschild and Hartert Geospiza darwini Rothschild and Hartert, 1899: 158 (Culpepper Island, Galapagos). Now Geospiza conirostris darwini Rothschild and Hartert, 1999. See Hellmayr, 1938: 130, Paynter, 1970b: 164, and Dickinson, 2003: 796. HOLOTYPE: AMNH 516980 , adult male, collected on Darwin (5 Culpepper) Island, 01.39S, 92.00W (Paynter, 1993), Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, on 27 July 1897, by Rollo Beck on the Webster-Harris Expedition (no. 157). From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: No type was designated in the text of the original description, where measurements were given for four males and one female, but Beck’s specimen no. 157 is designated as the type of Geospiza darwini in the same publication on pl. VI, fig. 21, a drawing of the beak of the holotype. Reference to this plate is also written on the reverse of the Rothschild type label of AMNH 516980. Paratypes in AMNH, all collected on Darwin Island on the Webster-Harris Expedition in 1897, are: AMNH 516977 , adult male, 26 July, by Harris; AMNH 516978 , adult male, 26 July, by Hull; AMNH 516979 , immature male, 27 July, by Drowne; AMNH 516785 , adult male, 27 July, by Beck, the last three now identified as magnirostris . I think that Rothschild and Hartert considered the immature bird to be a female. The right wing of that specimen is missing feathers, but the measurement of the left wing is 84 mm, the measurement given for the female. : Published as part of LeCroy, Mary, 2012, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 10. Passeriformes: Emberizidae: Emberizinae, Catamblyrhynchinae, Cardinalinae, Thraupinae, And Tersininae, pp. 1-125 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2012 (368) on page 39, DOI: 10.1206/775.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5399454 : {"references": ["Rothschild, W., and E. Hartert. 1899. A review of the ornithology of the Galapagos Islands. With notes on the Webster - Harris Expedition. Novitates Zoologicae 6: 85 - 205, pls. V, VI.", "Hellmayr, C. E. 1938. Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands. Part XI. Ploceidae - Catamblyrhynchidae - Fringillidae.", "Paynter, R. A., Jr. 1970 b. Emberizinae. In R. A. Paynter, Jr. (editor) in consultation with E. Mayr, Check-list of birds of the world. Volume 13, pp. 3 - 214. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, xiv + 443 pp.", "Paynter, R. A., Jr. 1993. Ornithological gazetteer of Ecuador, 2 nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, ix + 247 pp., 2 maps."]}