Anthus berthelotii madeirensis Hartert, 1905

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 : 50

Anthus berthelotii madeirensis Hartert

Anthus berthelotii madeirensis Hartert, 1905a: 271 (Poizo, 4000 Fuss hoch).

Now Anthus berthelotii Bolle, 1862 . See Alström and Mild, 2003: 215.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 572615 , adult female, collected at Casa do Poiso (= Poizo), 4000 ft, 32°43′N, 16°54′W (Times Atlas), Madeira Island , on 20 February 1903, by W. R. Ogilvie­Grant (no. 1344). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Ogilvie­Grant’s no. 1344 was cited for the holotype in the original description. Hartert did not say how many specimens he examined. Paratypes AMNH 572616–572618 were collected on Madeira Island by Ogilvie­Grant in early June 1903 and came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Ogilvie­Grant (in Hartert and Ogilvie­Grant, 1905: 81, 92) noted that his party made two brief stops on Madiera, on the way to and from the Azores, at which time they made small collections inland from Funchal. In the original description, Porto Santo Island was included in the range of madeirensis, but I did not find specimens from there in the AMNH collections.

Arctander et al. (1996: 264) incorrectly gave 1910 as the date of this description. Part 3, pages 241–384, of ‘‘Die Vögel der paläarktischen Fauna’’ was published in June 1905 ( Hartert, 1910a: XIII).