Sicalis columbiana leopoldinae Hellmayr, 1906

LeCroy, Mary, 2012, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 10. Passeriformes: Emberizidae: Emberizinae, Catamblyrhynchinae, Cardinalinae, Thraupinae, And Tersininae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2012 (368), pp. 1-125 : 25-26

Sicalis columbiana leopoldinae Hellmayr

Sicalis columbiana leopoldinae Hellmayr, 1906a: 85 (Central Brazil: S. Leopoldina, Rio Araguay, province of Goiaz).

Now Sicalis columbiana leopoldinae Hellmayr, 1906 . See Hellmayr, 1938: 318, and Dickinson, 2003: 791.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 516564 , adult male collected at Aruaña (5 Santa Leopoldina), 14.54S, 51.05W ( Paynter and Traylor, 1991), Rio Araguaia (5 Araguay), Goiás, Brazil, on 15 August 1888, by K. von den Steinen (no. 100). From the Berlepsch Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hellmayr gave the collector’s field number of the holotype in the original description. Male and female were both described, but Hellmayr gave no indication of the size of his type series. There is one paratype at AMNH: AMNH 516565, female, collected at the type locality on the same date by the same collector (bearing both the nos. 86 and 87). AMNH 516563, adult male, Rio Araguaia, Goiás, collected in June 1906 by G.A. Baer is not a paratype, as the description was published in May.

K. von den Steinen’s name does not appear on any of the labels; rather the collector’s name on the Berlepsch label is ‘‘Dr. Ehrenreich.’’ Hartert (1919: 160) credits both as the collectors.