Zoological Type Notes --T

• 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 Tetrao major Gmelin.
  • Type locality (Peters [Mayr] representation: "Cayenne".

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

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

• Tetraogallus himalayensis Gray,GR 1843 PZS(1842) p.105
  • Type by monotypy.
  • Type locality (Peters representation): "Himalayas". Peters 2:61.
  • Peters note "Tetraogallus nigellii J.E. Gray (not Lophophorus nigelli Jardine and Selby) = Tetraogallus himalayensis G.R. Gray." Peters 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 (Peters representation): '"Eastern Tibet," type from Mupin, Szechuan.' Peters 2:62.

• Tragopan satyra (Linnaeus) 1758 Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.157
  • Type by monotypy. Meleagris satyra Linnaeus.
  • Type locality: "Benghala" (Linnaeus).
  • Type locality (Peters representation): "Bengal, ex Edwards, pl.116. Error, the drawing on which Edward's plate was based was probably made from a specimen from Nepal." Peters 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 2:24.

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

• Tadorna tadorna (Linnaeus) 1758 Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.122
  • Type by tautonomy. Tadorna familiaris Boie = Anas tadorna Linnaeus.
  • Type locality: "coasts of Europe; restricted to Sweden by Linnaeus, 1761, FaunaSv. ed.2 p.40" Peters 1:451.

• 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 2:142.

• Trachyphonus vaillantii Ranzani 1821 Elem.Zool. 3 pt2 p.159
  • Type by monotypy. Trachyphonus vaillantii Ranzani.
  • Type locality (Peters representation): "South Africa ex Le Vaillant = southeastern Cape Province, fide Vincent, BBOC 55, 1935, p.94." Peters 2:61.
  • Bob Dowsett writes (2003.02.08):
    'BUT the species does not occur in the SE Cape, thus: restricted to Ham river, Namibia: Grant C.H.B. & Mackworth-Praed C.W. 1955. "On the type locality of Trachyphonus vaillantii Ranzani, Elem. Zool. 3, pt.2, p.159, 1821: South Africa." Bull.Brit.Orn.Club 75:23-24.

• Tricholaema hirsuta (Swainson) 1821 Zool.Ill. 2 pl.72
  • Type by monotypy. Tricholaema flavipunctata Verreaux, J. & Verreaux, E. = Pogonias hirsutus Swainson.
  • Type locality (Peters representation): "Africa; Gold Coast designated as type locality by Sclater BBOC 42, 1922, p.62." Peters 2:54.

• Tickellia hodgsoni (Moore) 1854 Cat.BirdsMus.East-Ind.Co.[Horsfield & Moore] 1 p.412
  • Type by monotypy. Abrornis? hodgsoni Moore.
  • Type locality (Peters representation): "Nepal." Peters 11:263.

• Threnetes leucurus (Linnaeus) 1766 Syst.Nat.ed.12 p.190
  • Type by subsequent designation. Trochilus leucurus Linnaeus = Trochilus niger Linnaeus. (Gray,GR 1855 Cat.Gen.Subgen.Birds p.20).
  • HBW 5:539 says: "Species long known as T. leucurus, but taxon niger traditionally considered a separare species, represents a melanistic form of geogrphically limited distribution, based on apomorphic characters with ithe range of variation fround in leucurus; otherwise the two are apparently inseparable, so conspecific treatment seems appropriate, with older name niger claiming priority.
  • The SACC, has reverted to the old classification, with leucurus as a separate species suggesting that there is insufficient published evidence to consider the two forms to be conspecific.
  • Threnetes leucurus (Linnaeus) 1766 Syst.Nat.ed.12 p.190
  • Type locality (niger) (Peters representation): '"In Indiis"= Cayenne.' Peters 5:6.
  • Type locality (niger): "Habitat in Indiis." Linnaeus, 1758 p.120.
  • Type locality (leucurus) (Peters representation): "South America"= Surinam, ex Edwards, pl. 256, f.1." Peters 5:6.
  • Type locality (leucurus): "Habitat in America meridionali." Linnaeus, 1766 p.190.

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