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Sitta rupicola Blanford 1873
No full text<i>Sitta rupicola</i> Blanford <p> <i>Sitta rupicola</i> Blanford, 1873: 87 (in montibus Persicis praesertim in Elburz saxa scopulosque frequentans).</p> <p> Now <i>Sitta neumayer rupicola</i> Blanford, 1873. See Vaurie, 1950b: 25, Mlíkovsky´, 2007: 106–107, and Harrap, 2008b: 141.</p> <p> LECTOTYPE: <b>AMNH 683968</b>, [immature] male, collected in the Karīj Valley, 6500 ft, Alborz (<i>5</i> Elburz) Mountains, 36.00N, 53.00E (USBGN, 1956b), northern Iran (<i>5</i> Persia, as on label), 9 August 1872, by W.T. Blanford (no. 572). From the Indian Museum via the Rothschild Collection.</p> <p>COMMENTS: Blanford did not designate a type in the original description, saying only that he had four specimens from the Elburz Mountains, one from Kohrúd, and one from near Shiraz. When Blanford (1876: 225–227) wrote about this species in his larger work, he gave Lura Valley, Elburz Mountains, as the collecting locality of his four specimens; but again no type was designated. Hartert (1920a: 440) in turn quoted the collecting locality of the lectotype as ‘‘Lura Valley,’’ evidently following that given in Blanford (1876), but the locality on the label is Karīj Valley.</p> <p>Buxton (1920: 136) exhibited two of Blanford’s syntypes at a meeting of the British Ornithologists’ Club; by stating that he considered the specimen in the Rothschild Collection to be the type because it was marked as the specimen illustrated, he designated it the lectotype. Hartert (1920a: 440) listed this same specimen, no. 572, as the type, and he noted the following:</p> <p> Blanford never noticed that his types were juvenile birds, and he mixed up his <i>rupicola</i> of North Persia with <i>S. neumayer tschitscherini</i> of Isfahán and Shiráz. The type specimen is marked on the label by Blanford: ‘‘typefigured specimen, <i>Ibis</i> 1873, p. 87,’’ and on the back of the label ‘‘specimen-figured Zoology of Persia.’’… The type specimen has been in the Indian Museum, but was made a ‘‘duplicate’’ and thus came into our hands.</p> <p> The specimen was illustrated in Blanford (1876: pl. 15, fig. 2); it was not illustrated in the <i>Ibis</i> article.</p> <p>One paralectotype is in BMNH (Buxton, 1920 [May]: 136). Warren and Harrison (1971: 482) were mistaken in saying that there were four (rather than six) specimens listed in the original description, and they did not refer to Buxton’s designation of the lectotype. However, had Buxton not designated a lectotype, then Hartert’s (1920a [November]: 440) listing of the type with Blanford’s unique field number would have so served, contra Warren and Harrison (1971: 482). The whereabouts of the other four paralectotypes is unknown; perhaps they are in the ‘‘Indian Museum,’’ now the Zoological Survey of India.</p> <p> In addition to the Rothschild type and Blanford labels, the lectotype also bears an Indian Museum label, Reg. no. 10062, and on the reverse, no. 3.16.2.78. Mlíkovský (2007: 93) noted that Blanford’s specimens from the Karīj Valley were probably collected at Dar Deh (<i>5</i> Dardeh), 35.38N, 52.46E (USBGN, 1956b). Mlíkovský gave the coordinates instead as 36.02N, 51.26E, but did not give his source, and I cannot explain the discrepancy.</p>Published as part of <i>Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, pp. 1-178 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333)</i> on pages 82-8
Vulpes cana Blanford 1877
No full textVulpes cana Blanford, 1877. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 2:321. TYPE LOCALITY: "Gwadar, Baluchistan ", [Pakistan]. DISTRIBUTION: Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, NE Iran, Pakistan. STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; IUCN - Insufficiently known.Published as part of W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 286, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735919
Alticola Blanford 1881
No full textAlticola Blanford, 1881. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 50:96. COMMENT: Revised, in part, by Heptner and Rossolimo, 1968, Sbor. Tr. Zool. Mus. Moscow State Univ., 10:53-93. Closely related to Dinaromys, Eothenomys, and Hyperacrius (JC), or possibly to Lagurus (CAR). Placed in tribe Clethrionomyini by Gromov and Polyakov, 1977: 126. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008068000000.Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 4), pp. 477-504 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on pages 478-479, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735303
Alticola stoliczkanus Blanford 1875
No full textAlticola stoliczkanus Blanford, 1875. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 44: 107. TYPE LOCALITY: India, Ladak, Kunlun Mtns. DISTRIBUTION: Mustang Dist. (Nepal); N. Ladak (Tibet). N.W. Kansu (China) (SW). COMMENT: Includes nanshanicus; lama, provisionally included following Gromov and Polyakov, 1977:130, and Corbet, 1978:103, was placed in roylei by Heptner and Rossolimo, 1968, Sbor. Tr. Zool. Mus. Moscow State Univ., 10:53-93. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008068004001.Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 4), pp. 477-504 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 479, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735303
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #1]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #2]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
Subspecies and Distribution. P.j. jerdoni Blanford, 1885 — SW India (Western Ghats). P. j. caniscus Pocock, 1933 — S India (Palni Hills, Tamil Nadu). in Viverridae
No full textSubspecies and Distribution. P.j. jerdoni Blanford, 1885 — SW India (Western Ghats). P. j. caniscus Pocock, 1933 — S India (Palni Hills, Tamil Nadu).Published as part of Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2009, Viverridae, pp. 174-232 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 1 Carnivores, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 197, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.571456
Murder on the mountain: author talk with Peter J. Wosh
No full textAuthor talk by Peter J. Wosh on May 5th, 2022, on his book, "Murder on the Mountain: crime, passion, and punishment in gilded age New Jersey.
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