Henicorhina leucophrys berlepschi Ridgway

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 : 122-123

Henicorhina leucophrys berlepschi Ridgway

Henicorhina leucophrys berlepschi Ridgway, 1903: 168 (Chimbo, western Ecuador).

Now Henicorhina leucophrys leucophrys (Tschudi, 1844) . See Hellmayr, 1934: 262–264.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 39566 , adult male, collected at Puente de Chimbo , ca. 02°10′S, 79°06′W ( Paynter, 1993: 40), Chimborazo, Ecuador, in November 1882 by F. de Siemiradzki (no. 271). From the Berlepsch Collection via the George N. Lawrence Collection.

COMMENTS: Ridgway (1903: 168) said that the type was in AMNH, but did not give the AMNH catalog number or indicate that it was part of the Lawrence Collection. Additional specimens from Chimbo were listed by Berlepsch and Taczanowski (1883: 539, 1884: 284) as having been collect­ ed by Stolzman and Siemiradzki, but no others came to AMNH with the Lawrence Collection. Therefore, AMNH 39566 from Chimbo is the holotype. This specimen bears the original Siemiradzki field label, the Berlepsch Collection label (without a number, but onto which the collector’s data had been correctly copied), the Lawrence Collection label, and the AMNH type label.

Ridgway (1903: 168) included both Chimbo and Pedregal in the distribution of H. l. berlepschi. Berlepsch and Taczanowski (1884: 285) list­ ed one specimen, a male, from Pedregal, which they included in their new taxon Henicorhina hilaris , based on a Stolzman manuscript name. This is now AMNH 39564, a second Lawrence Collection specimen also from the Berlepsch Collection (no. 113469), collected by Siemiradzki (no. 488) on 23 February 1883 at Pedregal (2800 ft). Berlepsch and Taczanowski did not designate a type, but Sztolcman (= Stolzman) and Domaniewski (1927: 154), in their list of types in the Warsaw Museum, listed a specimen from Chaguarpota, Ecuador, as the type of hilaris , thus designating it the lectotype. AMNH 39564 is thus a paralectotype of H. hilaris and a paratype of H. leucophrys berlepschi . Hellmayr (1934: 262–265) refered to this partial synonymy of H. hilaris with H. l. leucophrys .