Acrocephalus familiaris familiaris Rothschild, 1892
Millerbird, Miller bird, Laysan millerbird, Laysan warbler, Hawaiian reed-warbler
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Tartare familiaris Rothschild, 1892 (original combination)
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1916 (April 1923?)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Laysan, Hawaiian Islands, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Seven specimens are in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History "all...collected in June 1891 by Henry Palmer" (LeCroy, 2008). Rothschild (1892) did did not designate a type specimen, and so no holotype exists. Hartert (1920) remedied this situation by allocating a lectotype, and thereby creating six paralectotypes.
[b]Lectotype:[/b] AMNH 594841 (adult male)
[b]Locality:[/b] Laysan Island, Hawaiian Islands
[b]Paralectotypes:[/b]
AMNH 594842 (male)
AMNH 594843 (male)
AMNH 594844 (male)
AMNH 594845 (female)
AMNH 594846 (female)
AMNH 594847 (sex unspecified)
Media
Above: taken by Walker K. Fisher in 1902. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
References
Original scientific description:
Rothschild, Walter. (1892). Descriptions of seven new species of birds from the Sandwich Islands. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (ser. 6) 10: 108-112.
Other references:
BirdLife International. (2012). Acrocephalus familiaris. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 29 July 2012.
Cibois, A., J.S. Beadel, G.R. Graves, , E. Pasquet, B. Slikas, S.A. Sonsthagen, J.-C. Thibault, and R.C. Fleischer. (2011). Charting the course of reed-warblers across the Pacific islands. Journal of Biogeography 38: 1963-1975.
Courtney-Haines, Lawrence M. (1991). A Cabinet of Reed-Warblers: A Monograph Dealing with the Acrocephaline Warblers of the World, and Embracing All Known Species ans Sub-species. Chipping Norton, NSW: Surrey Beatty & Sons. xvii + 95 pp.
Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.
Ehrlich, Paul R., Dobkin, David S. and Wheye, Darryl. (1992). Birds in Jeopardy: The Imperiled and Extinct Birds of the United States and Canada, Including Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. 259 pp.
Elphick, Chris S., Roberts, David L. and Reed, J. Michael. (2010). Estimated dates of recent extinctions for North American and Hawaiian birds. Biological Conservation 143: 617-624.
Hartert, Ernest. (1920). Types of birds in the Tring Museum. B. Types in the general collection (contd.). Novitates Zoologicae 17: 425–505.
Knox, Alan G. and Walters, Michael P. (1994). Extinct and endangered birds in the collections of The Natural History Museum. British Ornithologists' Club Occasional Publications 1: 1-292. [p. 214]
LeCroy, Mary. (2008). Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7, Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Number 313, 287 pp.
Morin, M. S., Conant, S. and Conant, P. (1997). Laysan and Nihoa Millerbird (Acrocephalus familiaris). In: Poole, A.; Gill, F. (ed.), The birds of North America, No. 302, pp. 1-19. The Academy of Naural Sciences and The American Ornithologists' Union, Philadelphia and Washington, DC.
Munro, George C. (1960). Birds of Hawaii, revised edition. Rutland, Vermont: Turtle and Co. Inc.
Roberts, D. L. and Jarić, I. (2016). Inferring extinction in North American and Hawaiian birds in the presence of sighting uncertainty. PeerJ 4: e2426.