Heleodytes albo

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 : 109

Heleodytes albo ­brunneus Lawrence

Heleodytes albo ­brunneus Lawrence, 1862b: 10 ( Panama Railroad, near the summit of the Atlantic slope).

Now Campylorhynchus albobrunneus albobrunneus (Lawrence, 1862) . See Wetmore et al., 1984: 62.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 39428 , adult male, collected [during the winter of 1860–1861] on the Panama Railroad , near the summit of the Atlantic slope, Isthmus of Panama, Panama, by James McLeannan and John R. Galbraith. From the George N. Lawrence Collection.

COMMENTS: The above specimen is marked ‘‘Type’’ in Lawrence’s hand. Lawrence (1861a, 1861b, 1862a, 1863b) published his catalog of ‘‘New Granada’’ birds in four parts. Specimens in part I were collected by James McLeannan alone, those of part II by McLeannan and John Galbraith, and those of parts III and IV mostly by McLeannan alone, although some earlier specimens were treated. Of the seven specimens of this taxon that came to AMNH with the Lawrence Collection, the one listed above is the only one collected by both McLeannan and Galbraith. All of the others have only McLeannan’s name on the label and are either undated or dated 1862. Lawrence (1861b: 315), in the introduction to part II of his catalog, read on 27 May 1861, noted that the joint collection was made ‘‘during the past winter’’, that is, the winter of 1860–1861. In the introduction to part III of the Catalog, Lawrence (1862a: 461) said: ‘‘At the time of publishing Part II. of this Catalog, there were some species which I considered new.... P. L. Sclater, Esq., of London, having kindly consented to examine those species, I sent them to him with descriptions for publication in the ‘ Ibis ,’ in case he should coincide with me in opinion. I am happy to say that he did so, and the descriptions accordingly appeared in that magazine.’’ Lawrence (1862a: 461) then listed Heleodytes albo ­brunneus, referring only to his original description ( Lawrence, 1862b: 10–11), in which he had placed his new taxon in the Turdidae , had given measurements for only one male, and had noted that ‘‘few were seen, and no female obtained’’. Lawrence did continue to receive Panama specimens collected by McLeannan alone at least into 1862 and, as there are no queries concerning identification on any of the other labels nor any mention of Heleodytes in either parts I or II (i.e., prior to Lawrence’s description), I think that all of the other specimens of this taxon were collected after Lawrence’s description had been published.