Thamnophilus leucopygus Lawrence

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 : 95

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Thamnophilus leucopygus Lawrence
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Thamnophilus leucopygus Lawrence

Thamnophilus leucopygus Lawrence, 1866: 401 (‘‘ New

Granada, line of the Panama R.R., Lion Hill station’’). Now Dryoscopus cubla View in CoL ssp?. See Salvin, 1874: 316.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 47139 About AMNH , adult male of uncertain origin. From the G.N. Lawrence Collection.

COMMENTS: Lawrence (1866: 401) described this specimen as part of a collection he received from James McLeannan from the Isthmus of Panama ( LeCroy and Sloss, 2000: 37). There is no original label on the specimen. There is a label in Lawrence’s hand giving the supposed collecting information, with ‘‘Type’’ written on the reverse, and another similar label, also in Lawrence’s hand: ‘‘Salvin says is from Africa’’. The third and fourth labels are AMNH collection and type labels, the latter of which has a reference to Salvin’s (1874) paper.

Salvin (1874: 316) wrote: ‘‘On examining the type of [ Thamnophilus leucopygus ] in Mr. Lawrence’s collection, I felt convinced that an error had been made in assigning the Isthmus of Panama as the origin of the skin. I now find that the bird really belongs to the common African species, Dryoscopus cubla (Lath.) , Sharpe’s Cat. Afr. Birds, p. 47. In some exchanges I made with McLeannan, I sent him a number of African skins; doubtless this one was included by mistake in a collection forwarded to Mr. Lawrence from Panama, and thus misled the latter gentleman as to the origin of the specimen.’’

This does appear to be a male specimen and can be matched by male specimens of Dryoscopus cubla hamatus Hartlaub, 1863 . Given the uncertainty of the geographic origin of the specimen and the individual variation within the currently recognized subspecies, definite determination of synonymy may not be possible.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Thamnophilidae

Genus

Thamnophilus

Loc

Thamnophilus leucopygus Lawrence

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y. 2003
2003
Loc

Thamnophilus leucopygus

Lawrence, G. N. 1866: 401
1866
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