Calandrella pispoletta canariensis Hartert

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 : 16-17

Calandrella pispoletta canariensis Hartert

Calandrella pispoletta canariensis Hartert, 1901c: 64 (Laguna, Tenerife).

Now Calandrella rufescens rufescens (Vieillot, 1820) . See Hartert, 1919: 163, and Cramp, 1988: 135.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 556152 , adult male, collected at San Cristobal de la Laguna, 28°29′N, 16°19′W (Times Atlas), Tenerife Island , Canary Islands, on 7 March 1901, by Dr. Curt Floericke (no. 1260). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, the type was listed as a male collected on 7 March 1901. Two males were collected on that date, and Hartert (1919: 163), by giving the collector’s number, designated the above specimen the lectotype. There are four paralectotypes, all collected by Floericke at Laguna in 1901: males, AMNH 556153 , 7 March, AMNH 556157 , 19 January ; females, AMNH 556158 and 556159, both 7 March .

For comments regarding status of pispoletta , see Sibley and Monroe (1990: 654) and Dickinson and Dekker (2001a: 69–70).