Mimus gilvus tobagensis Dalmas, 1900

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 : 125

Mimus gilvus tobagensis Dalmas

Mimus gilvus tobagensis Dalmas, 1900: 134 (Ile de Tobago).

Now Mimus gilvus tobagensis Dalmas, 1900 . See Brew­ er and MacKay, 2001: 214.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 504021 , adult male, collected on Tobago Island, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies , on 25 November 1898. From the Dalmas Museum via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The above specimen does not bear a Dalmas Museum label, but the Rothschild Museum label is printed ‘‘E Museo Dalmas’’, as are the Rothschild labels on all of the Dalmas Museum material. It also bears a label stamped ‘‘ Tobago 1898’’, with the date ‘‘25.xi’’, ‘‘ Mimus gilvus’’, and ‘‘ϐ’’ in ink. In pencil on this label are ‘‘type’’ and ‘‘ tobagensis Dalm. ’’ in a hand unknown. ‘‘No. 45’’ appears on a separate small tag.

In the original description, Dalmas listed measurements for three males and three females from Tobago. Hartert (1920: 477) designated specimen ‘‘No. 45’’ as the lectotype, and it is the only Dalmas specimen of this taxon that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection.