Loxia curvirostra taurica Griscom

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 78-79

Loxia curvirostra taurica Griscom

Loxia curvirostra taurica (ex. Sushkin MS) Griscom, 1937: 182 (Crimea, south coast).

Now Loxia curvirostra curvirostra Linnaeus, 1758 . See Vaurie, 1956b: 27–28; Vaurie, 1959: 648– 652; Howell et al., 1968: 288–293; Dickinson, 2003: 756; Clement, 2010: 600–602.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 713126 , adult male, collected at Mishor , Crimea (5 Krim, as on label), south coast, southern Russia, on 29 September 1910 (16 September 1910, Julian calendar), by P. Sushkin (5 Suschkin). From the Sushkin Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Vaurie (1956b: 27–28) noted that Griscom inadvertently validated Sushkin’s manuscript name written on the labels of two specimens collected by Sushkin and in the Rothschild Collection. Griscom also included a second adult male. While Griscom did not designate a type, Vaurie (1956b: 28) noted that because there is not a second male from the Crimea in the Rothschild Collection from Sushkin, the single male must be considered the type, thereby designating it the lectotype of taurica. Sushkin on his original labels had written the dates according to the Julian calendar, but had converted them to the Gregorian calendar dates on his collection labels. When discussing the two Sushkin specimens, Griscom reversed the dates of collection.

The second specimen labeled taurica by Sushkin is the paralectotype, AMNH 713127, unsexed (but considered an immature female by Griscom), collected at Koreiz, Crimea, south coast, southern Russia, on 7 August 1910 (25 July 1910, Julian calendar), by P. Sushkin.

Vaurie (1956b: 28; 1959: 649) synonymized taurica with nominate L. curvirostra . He ( Vaurie, 1959: 649) thought that the type locality was possibly Mys Ay Todor.