Columba Maugei Temminck, 1809

Jansen, Justin J. F. J., 2017, Rene Mauge's ornithological collections from Kupang Bay, West-Timor, Indonesia, August-November 1801, with special regard to type-specimens, Zoosystematics and Evolution 93 (2), pp. 467-492 : 469

Columba Maugei Temminck

Columba Maugei Temminck, 1809, Hist. nat. Gen. des Pig. Liv. 115: pl. 52 (Iles de I’Australe-Asie).

Geopelia maugeus (Temminck, 1809). See Lesson 1831: 474, Wagler 1827 ( Columba no 105), Peters 1937: 101 and Voisin et al. 2005: 852-853. - Now.

Type materials.

SYNTYPE: MNHN-ZO-MO-2002-525 [MNHN A.C. 11721], adult male, collected near Kupang Bay, Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, West-Timor (10°11'0"S; 123°35'0"E), between 22 August and 13 November 1801, by René Maugé.

Pedestal underside: Timor / Cap.ne / Baudin / M. Maugé / an 11 / 11721 / Geopelia Maugei / Tem. Type. Pedestal label: Geopelia Maugei / (Tem.) / Type / Exp. Baudin Timor.

SYNTYPE: MNHN-ZO-MO-2002-526 [MNHN A.C. 11722], adult, collected near Kupang Bay, Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, West-Timor (10°11'0"S; 123°35'0"E), between 22 August and 13 November 1801, by René Maugé.

Pedestal underside: Timor / Cap / Baudin / an 12 / M. Maugé / 11722 / Geopelia Maugei / Tem. / Type. Pedestal label: Geopelia maugei / (Tem.) / Type / Exp. Baudin Timor.

SYNTYPE (lost): The information available for the NMS bird is Dufresne Ms 1818, 80: Columba maugaeus, La Colombe Maugé, Tk. Pl. 52, des Isles del’ Austr. Asie. Not found in 2016-2017 (Bob McGowan in litt.).

Comments.

Two individuals in the MNHN are mentioned in the original description by Temminck and one in the possession of Louis Dufresne. The bird, as mentioned by Dufresne in the manuscript catalogue (1818: 80), is no longer present in the NMS. The MNHN specimens were catalogued around 1854 (MNHN Laboratory, ZMO-GalOis 4) and represented the only specimens in MNHN for a long time. They were followed by one specimen collected on the Voyage of l’Astrolabe (1822-1825). The type locality is erroneous (Iles de I’Australe-Asie), and therefore corrected and restricted to: West-Timor, near Kupang Bay (article 76a.2.A (ICZN 1999)). The second part of the species’ Latin name commemorates its collector.