Fringillidae

Pyrrhula pyrrhula wardlawi
Clancey, 1947: 76

Current name:
Pyrrhula pyrrhula pileata

Eurasian Bullfinch
1 paratype

Paratype: ZMA 7994, adult female, Kinloch Rannoch (Pertshire, Scotland, U.K.), collected 3 Apr 1947 by W.J. Plowden Wardlaw, received from the latter on 11 Oct 1949 but still available to Clancey when he wrote his article in May 1947.

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Additional information
The holotype, an adult female collected at Kinloch Rannoch on 2 Jun 1946 by W.J. Plowden Wardlaw, is in the RSME (Clancey coll.); wing 82.5, tail 61, exposed culmen 9.0, bill depth at nostril 8.0, tarsus 17.5 (Clancey 1947). Paratypes were 14 males, 10 females, and 2 juveniles, collected in Pertshire (11 birds), Inverness (5), Ross-shire (7), and Sutherlandshire (3), from the collections of Plowden Wardlaw, R. Meinertzhagen, RSME, and P.A. Clancey. The ZMA has several other Bullfinches from Plowden Wardlaw, but these were collected after the description of wardlawi. This taxon is similar to pileata from England, Wales, and Ireland, but its bill is c. 1 mm shorter, c. 0.5 mm narrower at base, and c. 0.5 mm less deep at base (C.S. Roselaar); also, "males are bluer on the mantle and duller carmine-pink on the underparts, lacking the orange or flame tinge of birds from England; females are greyer above and below than females from England" (P.A. Clancey in Roselaar & Prins, 2000), though this is not very obvious in specimens examined.

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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