Regulus regulus sanctae-mariae Vaurie, 1954

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 75-76

Regulus regulus sanctae-mariae Vaurie

Regulus regulus sanctae-mariae Vaurie, 1954: 2 ( San Pedro, Santa Maria, Azores).

Now Regulus regulus sanctaemariae Vaurie, 1954 . See del Hoyo et al., 2006: 348.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 597265 , adult male, collected at San Pedro , 400 ft, Santa Maria Island, 36.58N, 25.07W (Times Atlas), Azores, on 3 March 1903, by W.R. Ogilvie-Grant (no. 56). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Vaurie gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and noted that he had five specimens from Santa Maria. The four paratypes are AMNH 597263 , 597264 , 597266 , and 597267, all collected by Ogilvie-Grant in 1903. His entire collection was reported on by Hartert and Ogilvie-Grant (1905), where one female and nine male specimens were listed. Because support for the trip came from Rothschild, and Ogilvie-Grant was given leave of absence by BMNH, the collection was equally divided between the two sponsors. Rothschild’s specimens came to AMNH in 1932 ; the BMNH specimens were not studied by Vaurie.

See Päckert et al. (2003) and Päckert and Martens (2004) for cytochrome b and song dialect studies.