Loxia fuscata Vieillot

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 : 478-479

Loxia fuscata Vieillot

Loxia fuscata Vieillot, 1807, Ois. Chant.: 95 (Timor).

Lonchura fuscata (Vieillot, 1807). - Now.

Type materials.

SYNTYPE: MNHN-ZO-2011-597 [MNHN A.C. 6489], adult male, 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: 1. (Sticker) Asie austr. Cvte le Natte / expedit. du Capte Baudin / an XI du Moluques / Padda brun. 2. (illegible) 95 pl 62 / Padda fuscata Vieill. / Loxia . Pedestal label: Padda fuscata / (V.) / M. Maugé Timor.

SYNTYPE: MNHN A.C. 6490 [MNHN A.C. 6490], adult male, 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: (Sticker) Asie Aust. Cvtte Natte / Expedit. Du Capten Baudin. an 11 / le Padde brun ♂. 1. Loxia fuscata Padda (vieill.) pl 45. Pedestal label: Padda fuscata / ♂ / (V.) / M. Maugé Timor.

SYNTYPE: MNHN A.C. 6491, female, 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: Loxia madagascar / Padda / Sticker: Asie Aust. Cvtte Natte / Expedit. De Capt Baud / An XI Timor / ♀ Maugé. Pedestal label: not present.

SYNTYPE: NMW 35.570 [NMW 1815.XXXVII.38], adult male, 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 label: Amadina fuscata Gray / 1815-XXXVII-38 (153) / Dufresne gekft.

SYNTYPE (lost). The information available for the NMS bird is Dufresne Ms 1818, 56: Loxia fuscata , La Padda Brun, Vieiilot, Nlle Hollde, rare. The annotation in Dufresne 1818 ' destroyed in May 1892 ' confirms that the specimen is no longer present.

Comments.

The number of specimens is not mentioned by Vieillot (1807: 95), but the descriptions of a male, female and first year birds indicate multiple specimens. The three MNHN birds were the only three until another was donated by the RMNH in 1855 (MNHN Laboratory, ZMO-GalOis 3). The NMW specimen was present in the MNHN when Vieillot (1807) described the species. The type locality is restricted to: West-Timor, near Kupang Bay (article 76a.2.A (ICZN 1999)). Vieillot named this species Amadina fuscata or ‘dark’ ( Jobling 2017).