Margarops fuscus atlanticus Buden

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 130

Margarops fuscus atlanticus Buden

Margarops fuscus atlanticus Buden, 1993: 82 ( Barbados, east side, elev. c. 900 feet (274 m )).

Now Margarops fuscus atlanticus Buden, 1993 . See Brewer and MacKay, 2001: 245.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 325625 , adult male, collected on the east side of Barbados Island, ca. 900 ft, Lesser Antilles , West Indies, on 18 March 1924, by Gerald H. Thayer and Sinclair Clark.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the type was cited in the original description. The paratype is AMNH 325626, adult female, collected at Bathsheba, Barbados on 25 March 1924, by Gerald H. Thayer. As Buden (1993: 76) noted, the label data on this specimen were said to be extracted from Thayer’s field notes. I have not found Thayer’s Barbados notes, although his St. Vincent notes are on file in the AMNH Department of Ornithology Archives. The label on the holotype is original and the data are in Thayer’s hand, as is ‘‘ Allenia montana [atlantica] proposed name G.H.T.’’ ( Buden, 1993: 82).

This population may be extinct ( Brewer and MacKay, 2001: 245).