Geospiza propinqua Ridgway, 1894

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 : 39

Geospiza propinqua Ridgway

Geospiza propinqua Ridgway, 1894: 361 (Tower Island, Galapagos).

Now Geospiza conirostris propinqua Ridgway, 1894 . See Rothschild and Hartert, 1899: 159–160, Hellmayr, 1938: 136, and Dickinson, 2003: 796.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 517025 , adult male, collected on Genovesa (5 Tower) Island, 00.20N, 89.58W ( Paynter, 1993), Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, on 2 September 1891. From the G. Baur Collection (no. 597) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Ridgway gave Baur’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description and that number is written on all three of its labels. It bears an unnumbered USNM type label attached by Ridgway, a Rothschild type label, and a Smithsonian Institution label noting that the specimen is from spirits. The size of the type series was not given, but measurements of five adult males were provided ( Ridgway, 1894: 362, footnote). Paratype in AMNH is: AMNH 517026 , adult male, Genovesa Island , 2 September 1891, Baur Collection , ex spirits. There are two additional possible paratypes: AMNH 517043 , female, Genovesa Island, 2 September 1891, Baur Collection, ex spirits ; and AMNH 517045 , in immature plumage, not said to be a Baur specimen but bearing a USNM collection label with only the number ‘‘656’’ and the locality ‘‘ Tower I. ’’ The number ‘‘656’’ is within the range of Baur’s field numbers .