Quiscalus fortirostris Lawrence

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 : 56

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/832.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4627320
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scientific name	Quiscalus fortirostris Lawrence
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Quiscalus fortirostris Lawrence, 1868: 360 (Barbadoes) .

Now Quiscalus lugubris fortirostris Lawrence, 1868 View in CoL . See Hellmayr, 1937: 87; Blake, 1968: 193; Dickinson, 2003: 774; and Fraga, 2011: 779.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 42098, female, AMNH 42099, male, collected on Barbados (5 Barbadoes) Island, West Indies, undated, by A.H. Alexander. From the George N. Lawrence Collection.

COMMENTS: Lawrence described both male and female in the original description

and said that the types were in his collection. Both of these specimens are marked ‘‘Type’’ by Lawrence , and they are the only two specimens of this form in AMNH from the Lawrence Collection. A.H. Alexander was a New York taxidermist ( Wynne, 1969: 4) from whom Lawrence received specimens on occasion.