Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 10. Passeriformes: Emberizidae: Emberizinae, Catamblyrhynchinae, Cardinalinae, Thraupinae, And Tersininae
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Euphonia elegantissima vincens
Hartert
Euphonia elegantissima vincens
Hartert, 1913: 77
(San Jose´,
Costa Rica
).
Now
Euphonia elegantissima elegantissima
(
Bonaparte, 1838
)
. See
Hellmayr, 1936: 21–22
,
Storer, 1970: 348
,
Wetmore et al., 1984: 393–395
;
Isler and Isler, 1999: 241–242
, and Dickinson, 2003: 821.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 511894
, adult male, collected at
San Jose´
,
09.59N
,
84.04W
(Times Atlas),
Costa Rica
, on
20 January 1898
, by
C.F. Underwood. From
the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert designated as the type of
E. e. vincens
a male specimen in the Rothschild Collection collected on
20 January 1898
at San José by Underwood and gave the range as
Costa Rica
and Chiriqui.The following are
paratypes
, all collected by
Underwood
in
Costa Rica
:
AMNH 511889
, female,
La Estrella
,
9 June 1893
;
AMNH 511890
, male,
Rancho Redondo
,
20 July 1893
;
AMNH 511891
, male,
AMNH 511892
, sex?,
Azoban
de
Cartago
,
19 March 1895
and
3 April 1895
;
AMNH 511893
, male,
Escazu
,
17 September 1898
;
AMNH 511895
, female,
San Jose´
,
20 January 1898
.
AMNH 511885
, an unsexed and undated specimen from
Veragua
,
Panama
, is the only possible
Chiriqui
specimen that came to
AMNH
with the
Rothschild Collection
; it is considered a
paratype
of
vincens
.
Siegel and Olson (2008: 106)
noted that the Province of
Chiriqui
was ‘‘formerly included under the old term ‘Veragua.’’’