Molothrus (Lampropsar) Cabanisii Cassin

Molothrus (Lampropsar) Cabanisii Cassin, 1866: 22 (Guiana and Santa Martha, New Grenada).

Now Molothrus bonariensis cabanisii Cassin, 1866 . See Stone, 1891: 346; Stone, 1899: 34; Chapman, 1917: 361; Hellmayr, 1937: 65–66; Blake, 1968: 197; Dickinson, 2003: 773; and Fraga, 2011: 786–787.

SYNTYPE: AMNH 42067, unsexed, collected in Santa Marta, Colombia (5 New Grenada), undated, by ‘‘J.A.’’ From the George N. Lawrence Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Cassin said that he had one specimen from ‘‘Guiana’’ in PNAS, and a second specimen from ‘‘Santa Martha, New Grenada’’ in the Lawrence Collection along with others in PNAS without locality data. Chapman (1917: 631) listed as type the Santa Marta specimen in AMNH labeled ‘‘ Lampropsar cabanisii ’’ by Cassin. AMNH 42067 is so labeled and is marked ‘‘Type’’ by Lawrence . Stone (1891: 346) in his revision of species allied to M. bonairensis, listed the range of cabanisii as Colombia and Venezuela, with birds from Guiana included in atronitens (5 minimus) and later (Stone, 1899: 34) listed the type of cabanisii as PNAS no. 3651 from the Rivoli Collection but without a locality. Hellmayr (1937: 65) noted that the locality ‘‘Guiana’’ was an error. Cassin’s type is not listed by Meyer de Schauensee (1957: 239).