Fringillidae

Fringilla coelebs scotica
Harrison, 1937: 65

Current name:
Fringilla coelebs gengleri

Chaffinch
1 paratype

Paratype: ZMA 45427, adult male, Giffnock (E Renfrewshire [now in Strathclyde], SW Scotland, U.K.), collected 1 May 1936 by P.A. Clancey.

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Additional information
When describing this subspecies, Harrison had as a type-series 18 males from Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire, Dunbartonshire, and Stirlingshire before him, mostly collected by P.A. Clancey; wing of these 83-91, tail 61.5-72, bill 15-17, tarsus 18-20 (Harrison 1937). The holotype is an adult male, collected on 21 Oct 1936 in Carmunnock (Lanarkshire), wing 88, tail 72, culmen 15, tarsus 17, in the HZM; specifically mentioned were also cotype I, same sex and locality, taken 23 Apr 1936, with wing 87, tail 67.5, culmen 16, tarsus 18, in the HZM, and cotype II, idem, wing 87, tail 66, culmen 15.5, tarsus 19.5, in the Clancey coll. and thus now in the RSME. Also, the paratype now in the ZMA was among the type-series (received by the ZMA in the 1950's).
A female from the Clancey coll. and available to Harrison when describing this new subspecies is ZMA 45428 (from Cathcart, E Renfrewshire, 18 Jul 1936), but this is not a paratype as no mention is made of females in the original description. Many other Scottish Chaffinches from the Clancey collection are in the ZMA, but all these are collected after the description of the race and hence can not be considered as paratypes.

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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