Coturniculus savannarum caribaeus Hartert

LeCroy, Mary, 2012, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 10. Passeriformes: Emberizidae: Emberizinae, Catamblyrhynchinae, Cardinalinae, Thraupinae, And Tersininae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2012 (368), pp. 1-125 : 19

Coturniculus savannarum caribaeus Hartert

Coturniculus savannarum caribaeus Hartert, 1902: 298 ( Bonaire) .

Now Ammodramus savannarum caribaeus ( Hartert, 1902) . See Hellmayr, 1938: 495, Byers et al., 1995: 261–263, Vickery, 1996, and Dickinson, 2003: 784–785.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 518567 , adult male, collected on Bonaire Island, West Indies , on 11 July 1892, by Ernst Hartert (no. 164). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert cited his field number of the holotype in the original description, giving the range of the new subspecies as Bonaire and Curaçao without mentioning the number of specimens he collected. In the earlier account of his trip to the West Indies, Hartert (1893b: 327), under Ammodramus savannarum , had mistakenly referred to his ‘‘ Aruban specimens’’ when giving the measurements of his Bonaire specimens, but still without mentioning the number of specimens ; here he also mentioned his collecting locality as Kralendijk, 12.09N, 68.16W (Times Atlas). There are in AMNH six Hartert specimens of caribaeus all collected in 1892, the following five being paratypes: Bonaire, AMNH 518566 (Hartert no. 220), male, 21 July ; AMNH 518568 (167), male, 11 July ; AMNH 518569 (170), male, 11 July ; AMNH 518570 (165), female, 11 July ; Beekenburg , Curaçao, AMNH 518571 (260), male, 2 August .