Cistothorus platensis falklandicus Chapman, 1934

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 111

Cistothorus platensis falklandicus Chapman

Cistothorus platensis falklandicus Chapman, 1934: 7 (Sea Lion Island, Falkland Isl.).

Now Cistothorus platensis falklandicus Chapman, 1934 . See Herkert et al., 2001: 4, and Brewer and MacKay, 2001: 119.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 165401 , adult male, collected on Sea Lion Island , Falkland Islands, on 17 (not 15) December 1915, by Rollo H. Beck (no. 5041). Collected on the Brewster­Sanford Expedition.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the type was cited in the original description. Paratypes are AMNH 165399, 165400, 165402, and 165403.

Beck left Bleaker Island on 15 December, anchoring overnight at a harbor in Adventure Sound and reaching Sea Lion Island on 16 December, where his party remained until 18 December. Three of these ‘‘Tule Wrens’’ were collected beside a small stream that ran through the tussack into the sea (Journal, Archives in the Dept. of Ornithology at AMNH). The Sea Lion Islands are at 52°25′S, 59°00′W (Gazetteer no. 31, USBGN).