Troglodytes musculus neglectus Chapman

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 : 120

Troglodytes musculus neglectus Chapman

Troglodytes musculus neglectus Chapman, 1917: 520 (Buena Vista (above Villavicencio), alt. 4500 ft., Eastern Andes, Colombia).

Now Troglodytes aedon albicans Berlepsch and Taczanowski, 1884 . See Hellmayr, 1934: 228, Paynter and Vaurie, 1960: 425.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 122488 , adult male, collected at Buenavista , 04°10′N, 73°41′W ( Paynter, 1997: 49), above Villavicencio, 4500 ft, Meta, Colombia, on 8 March 1913, by F.M. Chapman.

COMMENTS: Chapman (1917: 520) based his new form on 10 specimens, all from Buenavista. However, only seven specimens from that locality, including the type, were cataloged in AMNH, nor did I find others in the AMNH collection. Chapman (1917: 521) gave measurements of only five males, including the type; no female measurements were listed, but two immature females are part of the type series. The six paratypes are AMNH 122486, 122487, 122489, 122490, all males, and AMNH 122491 and 122492, both immature females.

Troglodytes musculus neglectus Chapman, 1917 , was found to be preoccupied by Troglodytes neglectus Brooke, 1872 , from Kashmir, now considered a subspecies of Troglodytes troglodytes . It was renamed Troglodytes musculus chapmani by Stone (1918: 244). Hellmayr (1934: 228) synonymized chapmani with clarus, which is a synonym of albicans according to Paynter and Vaurie (1960: 425). Brewer and MacKay (2001: 173) recognized Troglodytes musculus with clarus as a valid subspecies.