Acanthis cannabina meadewaldoi 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 : 70

Acanthis cannabina meadewaldoi Hartert

Acanthis cannabina meadewaldoi Hartert, 1901a: 323 (Esperanza, Tenerife) .

Now Carduelis cannabina meadewaldoi (Hartert, 1901) . See Hartert, 1903: 75; Hartert, 1919a: 157; Vaurie, 1956a: 19–21; Vaurie, 1959: 616; Dickinson, 2003: 752; and Clement, 2010: 569– 570.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 711702 , adult male, collected at Esperanza, Tenerife Island , 28.15N, 16.35W (Times atlas), Canary Islands, on 22 March 1901, by C. Floericke (no. 1283). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert designated the male specimen collected at Esperanza on 22 March 1901 as the type. He did not mention Floericke or his field number, but AMNH 711702 is the only such specimen that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, and it bears a Rothschild type label. Hartert (1901a: 335) commented that his own stay on Tenerife had been a brief one in April 1901 but that he had bought a few specimens from Floericke, who had collected there for a month.

In the original description, Hartert gave measurements for more than one adult male, but gave no information about them. A number of other specimens from Teneriffe were in the Rothschild Collection, but they were all collected by R. Thanner. Those that have a year of collection on the labels were collected between December 1901 and May 1904; meadewaldoi was published earlier, in October 1901. There are three males collected in March and one female collected in February, without a year, but there is no indication that these entered into Hartert’s description, especially as no female was mentioned.