Telespyza flavissima Rothschild, 1892

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 : 32

Telespyza flavissima Rothschild

Telespyza flavissima Rothschild, 1892: 110 (Laysan Island, Sandwich group).

Now Telespiza cantans S.B. Wilson, 1890 . See Rothschild, 1893g: 5–7, pls. 10, 11; Rothschild, 1900: 305; Amadon, 1950: 172; Greenway, 1968: 102; Olson and James, 1986: 84–86; Dickinson, 2003: 758; Pratt, 2005: 198–200; and Pratt, 2010: 650.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 453646 , adult male, collected on Laysan Island, 25.46N, 171.44W (Times atlas), Hawaii, on 18 June 1891, by Henry Palmer (no. 1095). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild did not designate a type in the original description, describing male and female without listing his specimens. Hartert (1919a: 169) gave Palmer’s no. 1095 for the type of flavissima , thereby designating it the lectotype; it had been marked ‘‘Type’’ by Rothschild. The following paralectotypes, collected by Palmer on Laysan, are in AMNH: AMNH 453647 (Palmer no. 1096), male, undated ; AMNH 453648 (1094), unsexed, undated ; AMNH 453668 (1156), female [male], undated ; AMNH 453669 (1095), female, undated ; AMNH 453670 (1097), female, 18 June 1891 ; AMNH 453671 (1144), female, 19 June 1891. Other paralectotypes may be in BMNH as part of the Rothschild Bequest .

See Olson and James (1986: 85) and David et al. (2009: 5) for the correct spelling of Telespiza .