Geospiza harterti Ridgway

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 : 37

Geospiza harterti Ridgway

Geospiza harterti Ridgway, 1901: 507 (Chatham Island).

Now Geospiza fuliginosa Gould, 1837 . See Hellmayr, 1938: 132, Paynter, 1970b: 161, and Dickinson, 2003: 795.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 517667 , adult male (ex spirits), collected on San Cristóbal (5 Chatham) Island, 00.50S, 89.26W ( Paynter, 1993), Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, on 8 September 1891. From the G. Baur Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert (1899: 163) listed as ‘‘ Geospiza spec. inc.’’ a single black male, skinned from spirits, collected on Chatham Island on 8 September 1891, with culmen 14.5 mm, bill from nostril to tip 9.8, and wing 69. They did not introduce a new name based on this single specimen, but it is this specimen that Ridgway (1901: 507) named G. harterti , citing the above information.

Rothschild and Hartert (1902: 397) accept- ed this name in light of additional specimens they had acquired and the holotype was listed by Hartert (1919: 153).