Fringillaria socotrana Ogilvie-Grant and Forbes

LeCroy, Mary, 2012, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 10. Passeriformes: Emberizidae: Emberizinae, Catamblyrhynchinae, Cardinalinae, Thraupinae, And Tersininae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2012 (368), pp. 1-125 : 6

Fringillaria socotrana Ogilvie-Grant and Forbes

Fringillaria socotrana Ogilvie-Grant and Forbes, 1899:2 (3500–4500 feet, Adho Dimellus, Socotra).

Now Emberiza socotrana ( Ogilvie-Grant and Forbes, 1899) . See Dickinson, 2003: 778, Fry and Keith, 2004: 580–581.

SYNTYPE: AMNH 716975, adult male, collected at Adho Dimello (5 Adho Dimellus), 3500 ft, 12.33N, 54.03E (G. Kirwan, personal commun.), Socotra, Yemen, on 10 February 1899, on the joint Liverpool Museum and British Museum expedition to Socotra. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, characters were given for both male and female, but no type was designated and the number of specimens was not indicated. Warren and Harrison (1971: 516) noted that a male and a female syntype were present in BMNH, the male syntype collected on 6 February 1899. Ogilvie-Grant and Forbes (1903: 32–33), reporting more fully on the expedition, listed five specimens of socotrana collected on the expedition. The male collected on 10 February 1899 is the syntype listed above and is the single specimen in AMNH from the expedition. It had not previously been recognized as a syntype. The species is illustrated in Ogilvie-Grant and Forbes (1903: pl. 3, fig. 1).