Henicorhina leucophrys castanea Ridgway, 1903

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

Henicorhina leucophrys castanea Ridgway

Henicorhina leucophrys castanea Ridgway, 1903: 168 ( Guatemala).

Now Henicorhina leucophrys castanea Ridgway, 1903 . See Phillips, 1986: 132, and Brewer and MacKay, 2001: 187.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 39563 , unsexed, collected in Guatemala. From the George N. Lawrence Collection (no. 92).

COMMENTS: This specimen has been held in the AMNH type collection as the type of Heterorhina griseicollis Baird (1864 –1866: 117). However, Baird incorrectly identified it, as well as Mexican and other Guatemalan specimens, with Merulaxis griseicollis Lafresnaye, 1840 , and included them in his newly described genus Heterorhina ( Baird, 1864 –1866: 115) without proposing a new specific name. At the same time, he called attention to differences exhibited by this Lawrence specimen, which came to AMNH in 1887 with the purchase of the Lawrence Collection. When Ridgway (1903: 168) published his description of Henicorhina leucophrys castanea , he chose as his holotype the same Lawrence specimen mentioned by Baird, perhaps without realizing it, for Ridgway quoted its AMNH number without comment. Lat­ er, Ridgway (1904: 615) apparently still did not realize that only one specimen was involved, for he listed, in the synonymy of H. leucophrys castanea , the Lawrence specimen under Heterorhina griseicollis and an AMNH specimen as the type of H. leucophrys castanea , without comment.

I have been unable to trace the number 92, cited by Baird, that appears on the Lawrence label.