Rhodacanthis flaviceps 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 : 33

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/832.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4627277
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scientific name	Rhodacanthis flaviceps Rothschild
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Rhodacanthis flaviceps Rothschild View in CoL

Rhodacanthis flaviceps Rothschild, 1892: 111 View in CoL (Kona, Hawai, Sandwich group).

Now Rhodacanthis flaviceps Rothschild, 1892 View in CoL . See Rothschild, 1900: 205, pl. 69; Amadon, 1950: 172–173; Greenway, 1968: 102; Olson, 1999; Dickinson, 2003: 758; and Pratt, 2005: 209–210.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 453640 About AMNH , adult male, collected in the Kona District , Hawaii (5 Hawai) Island, Hawaii , on 1 October 1891, by Henry Palmer (no. 1360). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild did not designate a type in the original description, describing adult male, adult female, and young male. Hartert (1919a: 169) noted that Palmer sent eight specimens and listed Palmer’s specimen no. 1360 as the type of flaviceps , thereby designating it the lectotype. A note by Amadon on a label added to the type: ‘‘ Unique–the only ad. s of this extinct species ever collected,’’ and on the reverse someone has written: ‘‘ No ! Is one in London’ ’ (5 BMNH). A male and a female are in BMNH from the Rothschild Bequest. The following paralectotypes, collected by Palmer on Hawaii Island in 1891, are in AMNH: male, AMNH 453641 About AMNH (Palmer no. 1384), 6 October ; females, AMNH 453642 About AMNH (1444), 19 October, AMNH 453643 About AMNH (1421), 13 October, AMNH 453644 About AMNH (1413), 10 October, AMNH 453645 About AMNH (1383), 6 October. A separate tag is attached to AMNH 453644 About AMNH : ‘‘skull, humeri, and one tarsus removed and skin remade by J.P. Angle, USNM. Skull replaced by cast’’ (see Olson et al., 1987) .

Palmer’s diary ( Rothschild, 1900: (Di)) indicated that on 1 October 1891 he was on the slopes of Mauna Loa. According to Munro’s journal, the type of flaviceps was almost certainly collected on 30 September (S. Olson, personal commun.). As noted by Olson (1999: 16) the dates written by Palmer on his labels did not necessarily refer to the date the specimen was actually collected, but might instead indicate the date the specimen was skinned or even the date when the label was written. Olson’s transcription of Munro’s journal often provided a more exact date of collection.

The species is extinct.

VIREONIDAE CYCLARHINAE