Himatione wilsoni Rothschild, 1893

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 27

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/832.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4624307
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scientific name	Himatione wilsoni Rothschild
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Himatione wilsoni Rothschild

Himatione wilsoni Rothschild, 1893c : xlii (Island of Mauai).

Now Hemignathus virens wilsoni (Rothschild, 1893) View in CoL . See Rothschild, 1900: 137–138, pl. 59; Amadon, 1950: 165; Greenway, 1968: 97; Olson and James, 1995; American Ornithologists’ Union, 1998: 673–674; Dickinson, 2003: 758; Pratt, 2005: 240–243; and Pratt, 2010: 657.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 453159 View Materials , male, collected on Maui (5 Mauai) Island, Hawaii , on 17 July 1892, by Henry Palmer (no. 1650). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild did not designate a type or enumerate his specimens in the original description, describing both male and female and giving the range as Maui Island . Rothschild’s statement that ‘‘the types of C. wilsoni were shot by Palmer on the 14 July on Maui’ ’ does not serve to designate a lectotype. Hartert (1919: 171) listed Palmer’s specimen no. 1650 as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype. The following paralectotypes, collected by Palmer on Maui in 1892, are in AMNH: AMNH 453160 View Materials (Palmer’s no. 1644), male, 16 July ; AMNH 453161 View Materials (1651), male, AMNH 453162 View Materials (1759), female, AMNH 453163 View Materials (1753), male, 17 July ; AMNH 453164 View Materials (1757), female, 17 August ; AMNH 453165 View Materials (1778), female, 6 October ; AMNH 453166 View Materials (1795), female, 30 October ; AMNH 453167 View Materials (1755), unsexed, AMNH 453168 View Materials (1761), female, AMNH 453169 View Materials (1758), female, AMNH 453170 View Materials (1760), female, 17 August ; AMNH 453171 View Materials (1642), AMNH 453172 View Materials (1643), females, 14 July ; AMNH 453173 View Materials (1695), female, 7

August, AMNH 453174 (–), unsexed and undated; AMNH 454598 (1654), male, 18 July. This last specimen has no melanin in the feathers and is entirely yellow and white, but Palmer mentioned in his diary ( Rothschild, 1900: Di 9) that the iris, bill, and legs of this specimen were of normal color; it had been shot on the evening of 17 July. Other specimens may be in BMNH as part of the Rothschild Bequest. AMNH 453357 was originally identified by Rothschild as Oreomyza newtoni and only later corrected to H. v. wilsoni . It is not a paralectotype of wilsoni .

In mid-July 1892, Palmer’s diary ( Rothschild, 1900: (Di)) indicated that he was camped north of Olinda, 20.48N, 156.16W (Times atlas) on his way to Mount Haleakala.

In addition to Himatione and Hemignathus , wilsoni has been listed in at least the following genera: Chlorodrepanis ( Rothschild, 1900: 137, Mathews, 1930: 810), Loxops (Amadon: 1950: 165), and Viridonia ( Greenway, 1968: 97) . For a discussion of the history of the generic name Hemignathus , see Olson and James (1995). Pratt (2010: 657) treated wilsoni as a full species.