Certhidea becki Rothschild, 1898

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 : 41

Certhidea becki Rothschild

Certhidea becki Rothschild, 1898: 53 (Wenman Island).

Now Certhidea olivacea becki Rothschild, 1898 . See Hellmayr, 1938: 143, and Dickinson, 2003: 796.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 522618 , adult male, collected on Wolf (5 Wenman) Island, 01.23N, 91.49W ( Paynter, 1993), Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, on 31 July 1897, by C.D. Hull on the Webster-Harris Galapagos Expedition (no. 236). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild did not designate a type in the original description, only saying that he had a good series. Rothschild and Hartert (1899: 150) mentioned a series of ten specimens from Wolf Island but still did not designate a type. Hartert (1919: 172) listed as the type of becki male specimen no. 236 collected by Hull on Wenman Island on 31 July 1897, thereby designating it the lectotype. Of the nine paralectotypes, the following six came to AMNH: AMNH 522621– 522626, three males and three females, collected on Wolf Island 31 July 1897 – 4 August 1897.