Psittirostra olivacea Rothschild

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 32

Psittirostra olivacea Rothschild Psittirostra psittacea deppei Rothschild

Psittirostra olivacea Rothschild, 1900: 193 (Oahu) .

Psittirostra psittacea deppei Rothschild, 1905: 45 , nomen novum.

Now Psittirostra psittacea (Gmelin, 1789) . See Mathews, 1930: 815; Bryan and Greenway, 1944: 134–135; Amadon, 1950: 170–172; Dickinson, 2003: 758; Pratt, 2005: 213–216; and Pratt, 2010: 651.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 458998 , male, collected on Oahu, on 30 October 1846, by Prof. Behn (no. 111) on the ship Galathea . From the Kiel Museum (no. 1274H) via the Rothschild Museum.

COMMENTS. Rothschild (1900: 193) introduced Psittirostra olivacea as the name for Psittina olivacea , a nomen nudum introduced by Lichtenstein in 1854 (see Mauersberger, 1988: 134). Rothschild had a male and a female of this form, received on exchange from the Kiel Museum and listed many other specimens known to him.

Later, Rothschild (1905: 45) introduced the replacement name, Psittirostra psittacea deppei , after C.W. Richmond notified him that olivacea was preoccupied, having been used as ‘‘an amended name for Psittirostra psittacea (Gm.) ’’ by Ranzani in 1823.

Hartert (1919a: 170) listed the type of both names as the male in the Rothschild Collection with the numbers 111 and 1274H, thereby designating it the lectotype. There are two additional numbers on the Galathea label, ‘‘no. 68 Sch’’ and ‘‘92’’ of unknown significance. Hartert incorrectly listed Rothschild’s name olivacea as having been described as a subspecies of P. psittacea ; Rothschild described it as a full species.

There is one paralectotype in AMNH: AMNH 458999 , female, Oahu, 29 October 1846, collected by Behn (no. 109, and ‘‘no. 68 Sch’’) ; Kiel Museum no. 1274g. Other Galathea expedition specimens came directly to AMNH and were not part of the Rothschild Collection .

The species is probably extinct.