Acanthis carduelis britannica Hartert

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 : 69

[ Acanthis carduelis britannica Hartert ]

Acanthis carduelis britannica Hartert, 1903: 68 (Rottingdean, Sussex) .

Now Carduelis carduelis britannica ( Hartert, 1903) . See Hartert, 1919a: 156; Hellmayr, 1938: 264; Vaurie, 1959: 608; Dickinson, 2003: 751; and Clement, 2010: 561–562.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert gave the number ‘‘1100’’ for the type in the Rothschild Collection, a male, collected at Rottingdean, Sussex, England, in April 1902, by the Brazenor Brothers. Later, he ( Hartert, 1919a: 156) listed this type, but omitted any mention of the number ‘‘1100.’’ Hellmayr (1938: 264) noted that the type, formerly in the Rothschild Collection, was in the AMNH, New York, but did not say that he had examined it. As a matter of fact, the holotype did come to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection in 1932, but was one of the types of British birds that was presented to BMNH in 1936. It had been cataloged as AMNH 450918 and now bears BMNH Reg. no. 1936.10.15. 14 ( Warren and Harrison, 1971: 77).

Hartert (1903: 68) noted that he had 66 specimens of britannica but did not give further information that would assist in recognizing them. Certainly the 32 specimens in AMNH collected in Sussex by the Brazenors between December 1888 and April 1902 are paratypes: AMNH 710231–710235, 710237–710260, 710264–710266.