Acrulocercus bishopi Rothschild

Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348), pp. 1-193 : 139

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Acrulocercus bishopi Rothschild, 1893a: 41 (Island of Molokai).

Now Moho bishopi (Rothschild, 1893) View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 425, Dickinson, 2003: 431, Higgins et al., 2008: 499–500, and Fleischer et al., 2008.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 693923 About AMNH , male, collected on Molokai Island , ca. 22.00N, 157.00W, Hawaii, on 26 December 1892, by H.C. Palmer (no. 1891). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Rothschild did not designate a type in the original description but provid- ed descriptions of male and female. AMNH 693923 (Palmer no. 1891) is marked ‘‘s Type’’ and was listed as the type by Hartert (1919a: 177), thereby designating it the lectotype of bishopi .

Rothschild (1893 b, 1900: Di 16–17, 225– 226) gave further information and some details of the discovery of this species by H.C. Palmer, who collected widely for Rothschild in the Hawaiian Islands. Palmer found this species in small numbers in December and January; he left Molokai on 25 February 1893 and returned to Honolulu, from which place he probably shipped the specimens to Rothschild. Thus, Rothschild most likely would have had in hand all of the specimens of bishopi collected in December 1892 and January 1893. The total number of specimens was not given, but the nine paralectotypes of bishopi in AMNH are: eight males, AMNH 693916 (Palmer no. 1949), 26 January 1893, AMNH 693917 (1940), 22 January 1893, AMNH 693918 (1941), 22 January 1893, AMNH 693919 (1948), 26 January 1893, AMNH 693920 (1946), 26 January 1893, AMNH 693921 (1922), 14 January 1893, AMNH 693922 (1865), 17 December 1892, AMNH 693924 (1918), 6 January 1893; two females, AMNH 693925 (1929), 14 January 1893, AMNH 693926 (1908), undated. The label of AMNH 693926 is marked ‘‘ ♀ Type.’’ It was last seen on Molokai in 1904 and is now considered extinct ( Garrensen et al., 2009: 112). The illustration of this species on the cover is from Rothschild (1900: pl. 74, opp. p. 225) and illustrates the male and female ‘‘types.’’

Based on analysis of DNA from museum specimens, Fleischer et al. (2008) found that Moho species are unrelated to meliphagids, with which they have been associated since their discovery. They proposed a new family, Mohoidae , to include the genera Moho and Chaetoptila .

References

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Fleischer, R. C., H. F. James, and S. L. Olson. 2008. Convergent evolution of Hawaiian and Australo-Pacific honeyeaters from distant songbird ancestors. Current Biology 18: 1927 - 1931.

Garrensen, P. M., R. J. Camp, M. H. Reynolds, B. L. Woodworth, and T. K. Pratt. 2009. Status and trends of native Hawaiian songbirds. In T. K. Pratt, C. T. Atkinson, P. C. Banko, J. D. Jacobi, and B. L. Woodworth (editors), Conservation biology of Hawaiian forest birds. Implications for Island Avifauna: 108 - 136. New Haven: Yale University Press, xviii + 707 pp, 32 pls.

Hartert, E. 1919 a. Types of birds in the Tring Museum. B. Types in the general collection. Novitates Zoologicae 26: 123 - 178.

Higgins, P. J., L. Christidis, and H. A. Ford. 2008. Meliphagidae (honeyeaters). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, vol. 13, Penduline-tits to shrikes: 498 - 691. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 879 pp., 60 pls., 536 photographs.

Rothschild, W. 1893 a. [The Hon. Walter Rothschild exhibited three new birds which he had lately received from his collector in the Sandwich Islands, and characterized them as follows: -]. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 1: 41 - 42.

Rothschild, W. 1893 b. The avifauna of Laysan and the neighbouring islands: with a complete history to date of the birds of the Hawaiian possessions. Parts 1 and 2. London: R. H. Porter, i - xiv + 126 pp.

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Salomonsen, F. 1967. Family Meliphagidae. In R. A. Paynter, Jr (editor), Check-list of birds of the world, vol. 12: 338 - 450. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, ix + 495 pp.

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