Zoological Type Notes --I

• Tinamus major (Gmelin) 1789 Syst.Nat. 1 pt2 p.767 n.63
  • Type by subsequent designation. Apstein, 1915, Sitz.Ges.Nat.FreundeBerlin no.5 p.197.
  • Type locality: Cayenne, French Guiana

• Tinamotis pentlandii Vigors 1837 PZS(1836) p.79
  • Type by monotypy.
  • Type locality: '"on a high elevation in the Andes"; probably Bolivia.' Peters Checklist 1:47.

• Talegalla cuvieri Lesson 1828 Man.Orn. 2 p.186
  • Type by original designation.
  • Type locality: "Forests of New Guinea = Dorey [now Manokwari] Dutch New Guinea" Peters Checklist 2:8.

• Tetraogallus himalayensis Gray,GR 1843 PZS(1842) p.105
  • Type by monotypy.
  • Type locality: Himalayas.
  • Peters Checklist note "Tetraogallus nigellii J.E. Gray (not Lophophorus nigelli Jardine and Selby) = Tetraogallus himalayensis G.R. Gray." Peters Checklist 2:60.

• Tetraophasis obscurus (Verreaux,J) 1869 Nouv.Arch.Mus.Hist.Nat.Bull. 5 p.33 pl.6
  • Type by original designation and monotypy Lophophorus obscurus J. Verreaux.
  • Type locality: Type from Mupin, Szechuan.

• Tragopan satyra (Linnaeus) 1758 Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.157
  • Type by monotypy. Meleagris satyra Linnaeus.
  • Type locality: "Bengal, ex Edwards, pl.116. Error, the drawing on which Edward's plate was based was probably made from a specimen from Nepal." Peters Checklist 2:109.

• Tetrao urogallus Linnaeus 1758 Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.159
  • Type by subsequent designation. Tetrao urogallus Linnaeus. (Gray,GR 1840 ListGen.Birds p.62).
  • Type locality: "Europe, restricted type locality, Sweden." Peters Checklist 2:24.

• Tympanuchus cupido (Linnaeus) 1758 Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.160
  • Type by monotypy. Tetrao cupido Linnaeus.
  • "Virginia ex Catesby." Peters Checklist 2:41.
  • Type locality:"(in Virginia = Pennsylvania.)" AOU CL 7ed. p.121.

• Indicator indicator (Sparrman) 1777 Philos.Trans. 67 p.43 pl.1
  • Type by tautonomy. Indicator Sparrmanii Stephens = Cuclus indicator Sparrman.
  • Type locality: "Great Fish River, near Somerset East, Cape Province." Peters Checklist 6:69.

• Tachyeres brachypterus (Latham) 1790 IndexOrn. 2 p.834
  • Type by monotypy. Anas brachyptera Latham.
  • Type locality: Falkland Islands

• Turnix sylvatica (Desfontaines) 1789 Hist.Acad.R.Sci.Paris(1787) p.500 pl.13
  • Type by subsequent designation. Tetrao gibraltericus Gmelin = Tetrao sylvaticus Desfrontaines. (Gray,GR 1840 ListGen.Birds p.63).
  • Type locality: "Near Algiers." Peters Checklist 2:142.

• Ithaginis cruentus (Hardwicke) 1821 Trans.Linn.Soc.London(1) 13 p.237
  • Type by monotypy.
  • Type locality (Peters representation): "Mountains of Nepal". Peters Checklist 2:107.
  • The representation in Gray ListGen.Birds (1841) is here reproduced:

    ITHAGINIS,Wagl.(1832). Plectrophorus, J.E. Gray (183?).
    	Plectropus, Less.(1837). Phasianus,Hardw. Perdix,Temm.
    	Tetrao,Gm. Francolinus,Deless.
      I. cruentus, (Hardw.)Wagl.  Temm.Pl.col.332.  P.Gardneri,
    	Hardw. [female symbol]
      I. lunulatus, (Valenc.)G.R.Gray. P.Hardwickii,J.E. Gray.
    	Ill. Ind. Zool.,pl.  F. nivosus,Deless.
    

  • In my xerographic copy from the Smithosonian there is a "3" pencilled in next to the (183?). I presume, indicating 1833.

Comments&Suggestions to Data Steward
Alan P. Peterson, M.D.
POB 1999
Walla Walla, WA 99362-0999