Columba bitorquata Temminck

Jansen, Justin J. F. J., 2017, Rene Mauge's ornithological collections from Kupang Bay, West-Timor, Indonesia, August-November 1801, with special regard to type-specimens, Zoosystematics and Evolution 93 (2), pp. 467-492 : 469

Columba bitorquata Temminck

Columba bitorquata Temminck, 1809, Hist. nat. Gen. des Pig. Liv. 86: pl. 40 ( l’Inde).

Streptopelia bitorquata (Temminck 1809). See Hellmayr 1914: 91 and Voisin et al. 2005: 850-851. - Now.

Type materials.

HOLOTYPE: MNHN-ZO-MO-2002-536 [MNHN A.C. 11464], adult, collected near Kupang Bay, Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, West-Timor (10°11'0"S; 123°35'0"E), between 22 August and 13 November 1801, by René Maugé.

Pedestal underside: Timor / Australia / L. Naturaliste. / Cap. Baudin / M. Maugé / 11464 Type / Turtur bitorquata / Tem. Pedestal label: Turtur bitorquatus / (Tem.) / Type / M. Maugé Timor.

Comments.

In the original description Temminck mentioned that it was described from a single specimen. This specimen was catalogued around 1854 (MNHN Laboratory, ZMO-GalOis 4) and represented the sole specimen in the MNHN for a long time. It was followed by a bird from Sumatra collected by Pierre-Médard Diard and subsequently donated to the MNHN in 1821. This Baudin expedition bird arrived with Le Naturaliste in Le Havre, France on 7 June 1803 and subsequently entered the MNHN in the week of 13-20 July 1803 ( Jansen 2016). The type locality is erroneous ( l’Inde), and therefore corrected and restricted to: West-Timor, near Kupang Bay (article 76a.2.A (ICZN 1999)). Temminck named this species Turtur bitorquata or ‘double-banded’ ( Jobling 2017).