Corvidae
Garrulus glandarius lusitanicus
Voous, 1953: 39
Eurasian Jay
1 holotype, 8 paratypes
Holotype: ZMA 9477, adult male, Linares de Riofrio (Salamanca, Spain), collected 25 Apr 1947 by H. Grün; wing 187, tail 158, bill to skull 33.2, tarsus 42.8.
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Paratype: ZMA 9478, male, Linares de Riofrio (Salamanca, Spain), collected 26 Nov 1943 by H. Grün; wing 187, tail 150, bill to skull 32.5, tarsus 42.8.
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Paratype: ZMA 10337, female, Linares de Riofrio (Salamanca, Spain), collected 4 Apr 1951 by H. Grün; wing 173, tail 139, bill to skull 32.1, tarsus 41.6.
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Paratype: ZMA 10338, female, Linares de Riofrio (Salamanca, Spain), collected 3 Mar 1951 by H. Grün; wing 178.5, tail 142, bill to skull 30.6, tarsus 43.0.
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Paratype: ZMA 46062, female, Linares de Riofrio (Salamanca, Spain), collected 25 Apr 1944 by H. Grün (ex Van Marle coll. nr. 6062); wing 172, tail 137, bill to skull 33.2, tarsus 42.8.
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Paratype: ZMA 46063, female, Linares de Riofrio (Salamanca, Spain), collected 14 May 1941 by H. Grün (ex Van Marle coll. nr. 6063); wing 169, tail 133, bill to skull 29.8, tarsus 41.4.
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Paratype: ZMA 46123, male, Linares de Riofrio (Salamanca, Spain), collected 14 Apr 1950 by H. Grün (ex Van Marle coll. nr. 6123); wing 180.5, tail 146, bill to skull 33.2, tarsus 41.8.
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Paratype: ZMA 46124, male, Linares de Riofrio (Salamanca, Spain), collected 11 Apr 1951 by H. Grün (ex Van Marle coll. nr. 6124); wing 184, tail 147, bill to skull 33.5, tarsus 42.0.
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Paratype: ZMA 46139, male, Linares de Riofrio (Salamanca, Spain), collected 17 May 1951 by H. Grün (ex Van Marle coll. nr. 6139); wing 177, tail 138, bill to skull 33.4, tarsus 43.0.
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Additional information
According to Voous (1953), the original series consisted of 5 males and 5 females from NW Spain and Portugal; the single remaining paratype not listed above (a female) could be in any of the 22 bird collections examined for his study, e.g., a bird from Sintra (Portugal) of Aug 1863 or one from Linares de Riofrio of 6 Mar 1951 in the RMNH, or one of the 4 females from Linares de Riofrio in ZFMK (though it is then not quite clear why males from Linares de Riofrio in these collections were excluded from the type series). The ZMA has a number of additional birds from the type locality, but these were collected after the taxon was described. Lusitanicus is considered as a synonym of fasciatus from SE Spain by C. Vaurie (1959, and in Mayr & Greenway 1962); however, the upperparts of lusitanicus are much paler and more vinous than in fasciatus (which is much darker grey above), and the underparts are rather whitish, not as strongly suffused dark grey (Voous 1953). This could be confirmed in series examined in the BMNH and ZFMK: lusitanicus is a pale subspecies, rather near the Italian albipectus, though on average slightly more pink-brown.
Measurements
As far as types in the ZMA are concerned, all measurements were taken by C.S. Roselaar, unless otherwise noted, using the methods as described in Svensson (1992) and comparable with the data published in the Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds. All are in mm, and are given to the nearest mm when taken with a ruler and to one-tenth of a mm when measured with calipers.
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