Camarhynchus affinis Ridgway

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 : 40

Camarhynchus affinis Ridgway

Camarhynchus affinis Ridgway, 1894: 365 (Albemarle Island, Galapagos).

Now Camarhynchus psittacula affinis Ridgway, 1894 . See Hellmayr, 1938: 137–138, Paynter, 1970b: 165, and Dickinson, 2003: 796.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 518041 , adult, collected on Cowly Bay , on mountains, Isabela (5 Albemarle) Island, 00.30S, 91.06W ( Paynter, 1993), Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, on 10 August 1891. From the G. Baur Collection (no. 598) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Ridgway cited Baur’s field number of the holotype and noted that he had two additional Baur specimens. The holotype bears an unnumbered USNM type label filled in by Ridgway with the number ‘‘598’’ on the reverse, a Rothschild type label with a reference to the description on the reverse, and a USNM printed collection label with the printing crossed out and ‘‘598’’ and locality data added. Paratypes at AMNH are: AMNH 518039 and AMNH 518040 (Baur no. 641), females, collected on Isabela in August 1891, from the Baur Collection.