Molothrus occidentalis

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COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description, Berlepsch and Stolzmann describing male and female and noting only that Kalinowski had collected ‘‘ nombreux exemplaires; octobre et novembre 1889, janvier 1890. ’’ Hartert (1919 a: 137) at first listed only the adult male specimen as a cotype (5 syntype), giving its Kalinowski no. 258, and it is marked ‘‘ Typus’ ’ on the original label. This specimen came to AMNH bearing a Rothschild type label and was cataloged at that time as the type. Hartert (1928: 192 – 193) later added the female collected on 18 October as a syntype, but it bears no Rothschild type label; it is also marked ‘‘ Typus’ ’ on the original label. AMNH 521047 was not listed by Hartert and is not marked ‘‘ Typus, ’’ but is part of the same series and should also be considered a syntype. AMNH type labels have been added to the two additional syntypes. There are four more syntypes in MIZ (Mlíkovsky´, 2009: 128).