Vermivora browni Griscom

Vermivora browni Griscom, 1923: 4 (Miquihuana, Tamaulipas, Mexico).

Now Leiothlypis crissalis (Salvin and Godman, 1889) . See Hellmayr, 1935: 344, American Ornithologists’ Union, 1998: 536–537; Curson, 2010b: 741; and Lovette et al., 2010: 764.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 174885, adult male, collected at Miquihuana, 23.35N, 99.46W (Times atlas), Tamaulipas, Mexico, on 15 June 1922, by W.W. Brown. From the Leonard C. Sanford Collection.

COMMENTS: Griscom had the single specimen and gave the AMNH number for it in the original description.

Based on mitochondrial DNA studies and song, the genus Leiothlypis has been proposed to include the following species of Vermivora: peregrina, celata, ruficapilla, crissalis, virginiae, and luciae (Sangster, 2008: 207–211). Lovette et al. (2010: 764) found that their studies were consistent with this, but that a ‘‘marginally preferable alternative’’ would be to reinstate the genus Oreothlypis and include within it in addition to the six species included by Sangster in Leiothlypis, the two species gutturalis and superciliosa now included in Parula .