Callaeas cinereus CR

Ghiraldi, Luca & Aimassi, Giorgio, 2019, Extinct and endangered (‘ E & E’) birds in the ornithological collection of the Museum of Zoology of Torino University, Italy, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 139 (1), pp. 28-45 : 41

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.25226/bboc.v139i1.2019.a2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11558961
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039387EB-FFC4-F805-FF10-FD56FBA0FB89
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Callaeas cinereus CR
status

Treatment

SOUTH ISLAND KOKAKO Callaeas cinereus CR View in CoL

Glaucopis cinerea J. F. Gmelin, 1788

MZUT AV3585; previously mounted; unsexed; New Zealand, no date; purchased by A. Caffer in Rio de Janeiro in 1839.

MZUT AV16330; previously mounted; unsexed; New Zealand, 1843.

Remarks.— Hume & Walters (2012) treated this species as extinct. In 1839–40 Antonio Caffer, assistant to the Royal Zoological Museum of Torino, embarked on the frigate Regina for a journey around the globe. A storm near the Falkland Islands seriously damaged the ship, which was forced to return first to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where Caffer purchased about 2,400 zoological specimens, and then to Genova ( Mottin & Casolino 1999).