Thryothorus galbraithii 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 : 117

Thryothorus galbraithii Lawrence

Thryothorus galbraithii Lawrence, 1861b: 320 (Atlantic slope of Panama Railroad).

Now Thryothorus leucotis galbraithii Lawrence, 1861 . See Wetmore et al., 1984: 69, and Brewer and MacKay, 2001: 161.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 39461, adult male, and AMNH 39463, adult female, collected on the Atlantic slope of the old Panama Railroad, Isthmus of Panama, Panama, by James McLeannan and John R. Galbraith. From the George N. Lawrence Collection.

COMMENTS: A third specimen of this taxon, AMNH 39462, a male, was also in the Lawrence Collection but not marked ‘‘type’’. It was collect­ ed by McLeannan alone and on the back of the Lawrence label is the number 53905 and an ‘‘I’’. Storrs Olson (in litt.) informed me that this is a Smithsonian Institution catalog number and was part of a collection that the Smithsonian obtained directly from McLeannan in 1862. It is not clear when it came into Lawrence’s possession, but it obviously does not have any standing as a syntype.