Calendula

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 : 13

‘‘ Calendula ’’ dunni pallidior Hartert

‘‘ Calendula ’’ dunni pallidior Hartert, 1921a: 130 (Takukut).

Now Eremalauda dunni dunni (Shelley, 1904) . See Hartert, 1924a: 42, and Keith et al., 1992: 89.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 558455 , adult male, collected at Takukut (Takoukout), 1550 ft, 15°07′N, 08°30′E ( Giraudoux et al., 1988: 138), Damergu, Niger, on 21 March 1920, by Capt. Angus Buchanan (no. 459). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: When Hartert (1921a: 130) described this form, he listed three specimens in the type series, a male, a female, and an unsexed specimen, all from Takukut, designating as the type the male collected on 21 March and bearing Buchanan’s no. 459. Apparently, the type label was at that time tied on the wrong specimen, for when Hartert (1928: 200) listed the type of this taxon, he listed it as a ♀? with Buchanan’s no. 430. This error has now been corrected, and AMNH 558455 put in the type collection.

The two paratypes also came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. AMNH 558454, the specimen on which the type label had been tied and which had ‘‘type’’ written on the back of the field label, is Buchanan’s no. 430, a female?, collected at Takukut on 8 March 1920. This is apparently the specimen published by Hartert as an unsexed specimen but with measurements given as male?. It has been returned to the general collection and labeled a paratype. The second paratype was cataloged as AMNH 558456, female, collected on 21 March 1920, at Takukut, Buchanan’s no. 458. I was unable to find that specimen in the collection. These are the only Buchanan specimens of E. dunni collected before 1921 that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection.

Hartert (1924a: 42) himself synonymized pallidior with nominate dunni , the paler color of pallidior being due to plumage wear.