Nucifraga caryocatactes rothschildi Hartert, 1903

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 121

Nucifraga caryocatactes rothschildi Hartert

Nucifraga caryocatactes rothschildi Hartert, 1903d: 27 (südlich des Issik-Kul).

Now Nucifraga caryocatactes rothschildi Hartert, 1903 . See Hartert, 1919: 125; Vaurie, 1959: 156– 158; Dickinson, 2003: 511; and dos Anjos, 2009: 611–612.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 675571 , adult male, collected south of Ozero Issyk-kul’ (= Lake Issik-Kul), 42.25N, 77.15E ( USBGN, 1970b), Turkestan, in February 1901, by Rückbeil, Rudolf Tancré’s collector (No. J.K. 44). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert gave Tancré’s number for the holotype and noted that he studied 14 specimens. The 13 paratypes, all collected in Turkestan in 1901 by or for Tancre´, are: Bed of Karakol, AMNH 675568 , 675569 , male, female, September ; South of Lake Issik-kul , AMNH 675570 , 675572 , 675573 , two males, one female, November and February ; Bed of Ak-su , AMNH 675574 , 675575 , male, female, September ; Ak-su , AMNH 675576 , 675577 , male, female, September ; Barskoun , AMNH 675578 , 675579 , male, female, September and month ?; Bed of Djargess , AMNH 675580 , 675581 , male, female, September .

Rothschild (1902) had reported earlier on Tancré’s collection; on page 166 he listed only the three February specimens but noted their darker color. The September and November specimens apparently arrived later.