Euphonia elegantissima vincens Hartert, 1913

LeCroy, Mary, 2012, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 10. Passeriformes: Emberizidae: Emberizinae, Catamblyrhynchinae, Cardinalinae, Thraupinae, And Tersininae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2012 (368), pp. 1-125 : 88-89

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Euphonia elegantissima vincens Hartert

Euphonia elegantissima vincens Hartert, 1913: 77 (San Jose´, Costa Rica).

Now Euphonia elegantissima elegantissima ( Bonaparte, 1838) View in CoL . See Hellmayr, 1936: 21–22, Storer, 1970: 348, Wetmore et al., 1984: 393–395; Isler and Isler, 1999: 241–242, and Dickinson, 2003: 821.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 511894 About AMNH , adult male, collected at San Jose´ , 09.59N, 84.04W (Times Atlas), Costa Rica, on 20 January 1898, by C.F. Underwood. From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert designated as the type of E. e. vincens a male specimen in the Rothschild Collection collected on 20 January 1898 at San José by Underwood and gave the range as Costa Rica and Chiriqui.The following are paratypes, all collected by Underwood in Costa Rica: AMNH 511889 About AMNH , female, La Estrella, 9 June 1893 ; AMNH 511890 About AMNH , male, Rancho Redondo , 20 July 1893 ; AMNH 511891 About AMNH , male, AMNH 511892 About AMNH , sex?, Azoban de Cartago, 19 March 1895 and 3 April 1895 ; AMNH 511893 About AMNH , male, Escazu , 17 September 1898 ; AMNH 511895 About AMNH , female, San Jose´ , 20 January 1898. AMNH 511885 About AMNH , an unsexed and undated specimen from Veragua, Panama, is the only possible Chiriqui specimen that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection ; it is considered a paratype of

vincens. Siegel and Olson (2008: 106) noted that the Province of Chiriqui was ‘‘formerly included under the old term ‘Veragua.’’’

References

Bonaparte, C. L. 1838. [The Prince of Musignano laid before the meeting the following communication …]. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1837: 108 - 122.

Hartert, E. 1913. [Dr. Ernst Hartert exhibited and described examples of the following new subspecies of birds: -]. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 33: 76 - 79.

Hellmayr, C. E. 1936. Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands. Part IX. Tersinidae - Thraupidae. Field Museum of Natural History Publications, Zoological Series 13 (9): v + 456 pp.

Isler, M. I., and P. R. Isler. 1999. The tanagers. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 406 pp., 32 pls.

Siegel, D. C., and S. L. Olson. 2008. The birds of the Republic of Panama. Part 5. Gazetteer and bibliography. Shipman, VA: Buteo Books, 516 pp.

Storer, R. W. 1970. Thraupinae, pp. 246 - 408, and Tersininae, pp. 408 - 409. In R. A. Paynter, Jr. (editor) in consultation with E. Mayr, Check-list of birds of the world. Volume 13. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, xiv + 443 pp.

Wetmore, A., R. F. Pasquier, and S. L. Olson. 1984. The birds of the Republic of Panama. Part 4. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, vi + 670 pp., frontispiece.