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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Chlorospingus (Hemispingus) canipileus
Chapman
Chlorospingus (Hemispingus) canipileus
Chapman, 1899: 153
(Los Palmales,
Venezuela
).
Now
Myiothlypis griseiceps
(Sclater and Salvin, 1868)
. See
Hellmayr, 1935: 484
;
Ridgely and Tudor, 1989: 187–188
;
Curson, 2010b: 788–789
; and
Lovette et al., 2010: 766
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 70349
, sex?,
Los Palmales
, ca.
10.17N
,
63.45W
(
Paynter, 1982
),
Sucre
,
Venezuela
, on
3 December 1898
, by
F.W. Ulrich
(no. 26).
COMMENTS: In the original description of this form, Chapman gave the AMNH number of the type, his only specimen, as AMNH 57391. AMNH 57391 is the
holotype
of
Rallus longirostris cubanus
Chapman, 1892
, from
Trinidad
,
Cuba
. I have not been able to trace how this error might have occurred. The correct number of the
holotype
of
Chlorospingus (Hemispingus) canipileus
is AMNH 70349; it is marked ‘‘Type’’ in the catalog, all the other data are given correctly, and all the other specimens purchased from Ulrich are cataloged in this series.
Lovette et al. (2010: 766)
were unsuccessful in analyzing this species, and its plumage traits are ambiguous. They thought it most likely to fall within the group that they recognized as
Miothlypis
and recommended ‘‘placing it
incertae sedis
within that genus pending better information on its precise relationships.’’