The whereabouts of Salvadori's bird collections

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by  Carlo G Violani

194 Zlatozar Boev
mounted specimens ofWerner's collection are regis- stiniis as an endangered subspecies, distributed only
tered properly with numbers of the NMNHS. No in the Alakal Swamp forest on the Kauai Island
NHNHS' numbers have been given to the study skins. (Hawaiian Islands). A proper taxonomic examination
Following the catalogue of Graetzer, about one ofthis specimen has not taken place so far.
fourth (24.3 %) of the original specimens seems to
Because of the limited access to Graetzer's cata-
logue, the data of all specimens of
NMNHS Werner's collection housed at the
Table 1: Overview ofWerner's collection at the (2001). NMNHS
have been checked and
subsequently re-issued. This new
Order niirnhpr of nilmhpr niimHpr of Specimens number edition of the catalogue to
Werner's collection is available
families ofgenera species Available Non- Total
from the author as a data file. The
available
taxonomy follows del Hoyo et al.
Podic¡pediformes 1 2 5 15 15 (1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999,
Ciconiiformes 2 2 2 4 2 6 2001), which follows that of
Anseriformes 6 9 23 14 37
1 Peters (1931, 1934, 1937, 1940,
Falconiformes 2 3 4 4 4 8 1945) and Howard & Moore
Galliformes 2 5 5 8 6 14
Gruiformes 4 4 13 2 15 (1991), respectively.
1
Charadri formes 9 19 30 123 39 162
i
Pterocliformes 1 1 1 3 3
Columbiformes 1 4 5 7 7 Acknowledgements
Psittaciformes 1 1 1 2 2
The author thanks Hans-Martin Berg
Cuculiformes 1 1 1 1 2 3 (Natural History Museum - Vienna)
Strigiformes 1 5 5 10 2 12
CAappordiimfuolrgmiefsormes 21 124 127 141 141 282 CaenndteDrr,. UGpeprehrarAdusAturbirae-chtLin(zB)iolfoogrictahle
provided information on Emil Werner,
Coraciiformes 3 6 6 9 1 10 Dr. Alexi Popov (NMNHS) fortranslat-
Piciformes 2 8 10 21 6 27
ing some of the German texts, and Ms
Passeriformes 27 65 102 265 79 344
Vera Hristova (NMNHS) for extracting
Total 58 148 209 527 169 695 the collection data of Werner's speci-
mens.
have been lost, and their present existence and where- Literature
abouts, respectively, is unknown. On the other hand, Anonymous [Graetzer] (1907): Collections du Musée
afterthe publication ofGraetzer's catalogue in 1907, d'Histoire Naturelle de Son Altesse Royale Ferdinand I
79 specimens were posthumously added to Werner's - Prince de Bulgarie. Sofia, Impr de I'Etat. 1-484.
collection. The Werner collection contains also some Blasius, R., Reichenow, A., Berg, Bünger, Deditius,
bird heads besides the study skins and mounted birds. Leverkühn, Matschie, Meyer, A. B., Rohweder,
Wacke, Walter & Ziemer (eds. 1888): XI. Jahres-
The Werner collection contains specimens of 27 bericht 886) des Ausschusses für Beobachtungsstatio-
(1
families. Almost halfofthem (344 specimens) belong nen der Vögel Deutschlands. J. Omithol. 184: 313-571.
to 102 species ofthe Passeriformes. Charadriiformes Boev, Z. (1991): The ornithological collections of the
National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian
include specimens of 30 species, Apodiformes of 17
Academy of Sciences. Historia naturalis bulgarica 3:
species and Anseriformes of9 species (for details see 37-48 (in Bulgarian, English summary).
table 1 ). Day, D. (1981): The Singers. Thrushes, Warblers, Finches
and Allied Songbirds. In: D. Day. The Doomsday Book
Possibly the most valuable specimen is a study skin of ofAnimals. The Viking Press. New York. 107-116.
an adult female Hawaiian Thrush (Phaeornis obscii- Glutz von Blotzheim, U. N., Bauer, K. M. & Bezzel, E.
nis), collected on „Hawaii" in July 1887. Two of the (1977): Handbuch der Vögel Mitteleuropas. Band 7 -
four subspecies of P. obscunts (nitha from Molokai Charadriiformes (2. Teil). Akademische Verlagsge-
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considered to be extinct (Howard & Moore 1991). DEL HOYO, J., Elliott, A. & Sargatal, J. (eds., 1992):
The nominate subspecies is distributed over the island Handbook ofthe Birds ofthe World. Vol. 1. Ostrich to
Ducks. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. 696 pp.
of Hawaii, while the subspecies myadestinus from &
DEL Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. Sargatal, J. (eds., 1994):
Kauai Island is listed as a candidate for the Red Data Handbook ofthe Birds ofthe World. Vol. 2. New World
Book (Mountfort 1989) and „under review" Vultures to Guineafowl. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. 638
(World Conservation Monitoring Center 1993), pp.
&
respectively. King (1981) handles P. obscurus myade- del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. Sargatal, J. (eds., 1996):