Petrochelidon andecola oroyae Chapman

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 36

Petrochelidon andecola oroyae Chapman

Petrochelidon andecola oroyae Chapman, 1924a: 12 (Oroya, 12,500 ft, Dept. Junin, Central Peru).

Now Petrochelidon andecola oroyae Chapman, 1924 . See Peters, 1960b: 119, and Turner and Rose, 1989: 209–210.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 166022 , adult male, collected at La Oroya, 12,500 ft, 11°32′S, 75°54′W ( Stephens and Traylor 1983: 113), Junín, Peru, on 4 March 1913, by Rollo H. Beck (no. 224) on the Brewster–Sanford Expedition.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number was given in the original description. Paratypes are AMNH 166021, male, and AMNH 166023, female, from Oroya, and AMNH 177266, immature male, from Chipa.

Many authors currently do not recognize Petrochelidon as a genus separate from Hirundo ; however, recent DNA–DNA hybridization studies ( Sheldon and Winkler, 1993) have shown Petrochelidon to be monophyletic. The American Ornithologists’ Union (1998: 461) has again separated the two genera.