Nesomimus bindloei Ridgway

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 : 127

Nesomimus bindloei Ridgway

Nesomimus bindloei Ridgway, 1894: 358 (Bindloe Island).

Now Nesomimus trifasciatus personatus Ridgway, 1890 . See Davis and Miller, 1960: 448.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 504359 , adult male, collected on Isla Marchena (= Bindloe Island), 00°21′N, 90°29′W ( Paynter, 1993: 20), Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, on 5 September 1891, by Dr. G.A. Baur (no. 690). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Ridgway (1894: 358) noted that he had studied five specimens and that the type was in Baur’s collection. Rothschild and Hartert (1899: 146) said that ‘‘the type and ten others from the Baur collection’’ were in the Rothschild Collection. Baur specimen no. 690 was designated the lectotype by Hartert (1920: 478), and seven additional Baur specimens came to AMNH. There seems to be no way to determine which four of these seven Ridgway actually had in hand when he prepared his description. They are AMNH 504360–504364, males, the last four of which were from spirits, and AMNH 504375–504376, females, the latter from spirits. There are also two spirit specimens from the Rothschild Bequest in BMNH Reg. nos. 1940.12.8.166–167 (F. Steinheimer, personal commun.).

Like the type of Nesomimus adamsi (above), the type of N. bindloei also bears an unnumbered USNM type label, the only number appearing on it being Baur’s field number, 690.

Brewer and MacKay (2001: 222) considered personatus a subspecies of N. parvulus .