Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae
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LeCroy, Mary
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Cassicus
(sic)
vitellinus
Lawrence
Cassicus
(sic)
vitellinus
Lawrence, 1864: 107
(
New Granada
, Isthmus of
Panama
).
Now
Cacicus cela vitellinus
(
Lawrence, 1864
)
. See
Hellmayr, 1937: 28–29
; Blake, 1968: 144;
Wetmore et al., 1984: 346–349
; Dickerman, 2003: 769; and
Fraga, 2011: 749–750
.
SYNTYPES
:
AMNH 41901
, male, and
AMNH 41902
, female, collected in
New Granada
, Isthmus of
Panama
, in the ‘‘winter’’ of 1860–1861, by James McLeannan and John R. Galbraith. From the George N. Lawrence Collection.
COMMENTS: When
Lawrence
(1861a: 297)
first received the the first of these specimens, he misidentified it as
Cassiculus icteronotus
Vieillot, 1816
, but without giving any details. Later, after receiving a second specimen he realized his mistake, and named
Cassicus vitellinus
, describing both male and female but without specifying the number of specimens he had. The wing and tail measurements published with his description of the male and female are the same as those written on the labels of the
syntypes
, and both are marked ‘‘Type’’ by
Lawrence
. Apparently, the female
syntype
is the specimen that
Lawrence
had originally, as it bears one label marked ‘‘
Cassicus icteronotus
’’ in Lawrence’s hand, with a second label marked ‘‘
Cassicus vitellinus
’’ and ‘‘Type’’ by
Lawrence
. It is possible for
Lawrence
to have received this specimen from the joint collectors prior to his publication of Part 1 of his catalog in
January 1861
, as their collecting was done in the ‘‘winter’’ of 1860–1861.
There are two additional, undated, specimens of this form from the
Lawrence
Collection, collected by McLeannan. McLeannan collected alone both before and after his joint collecting with Galbraith, and these two specimens, AMNH 41903 and 41904, were probably collected later, as both have labels bearing only the name
C. vitellinus
. They are not marked ‘‘
Type
.’’
Fraga (2011: 749)
suggested that subspecies
vitellinus
and
flavicrissus
may represent a species separate from
C. cela
based on differences in plumage color and voice, but retained them in the one species.