Pyrrhura cruentata (Wied-Neuwied, 1820)

Lima, Rafael Dantas, Silveira, Luís Fábio, Lemos, Renata Constant de Amorim, Lobo-Araújo, Lahert William, Andrade, Arthur Barbosa de, Francisco, Mercival Roberto & Efe, Márcio Amorim, 2022, An annotated avian inventory of the Brazilian state of Alagoas, one of the world’s most threatened avifauna, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 62, pp. 1-36 : 35

Pyrrhura cruentata and Dendroma rufa

In 1865, a group of scientists from the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) embarked for Brazil in an expedition to study the country’s fauna and flora (Dick, 1977). Newton Dexter, a member of the expedition, collected bird specimens in the state of Bahia for two or three weeks, and after in Maceió, Alagoas, where he stayed only one day (Agassiz, 1868: chapter IV). Among the specimens from this expedition in the MCZ bird collection, twenty have “Maceió, Alagoas ” and none has “ Bahia ” as the locality of collection on their labels. Two of these specimens, namely a Pyrrhura cruentata (MCZ 7251) and a Dendroma rufa (MCZ 7242), called our attention because Maceió is far from the known northern limits of these species in Brazil. Other noteworthy species, considering that they may have been collected in Maceió, include Odontophorus capueira and Chelidoptera tenebrosa . Unfortunately, we were not able to ascertain whether these specimens were really collected in Alagoas and we believe that the assignment of all of them to Alagoas instead of Bahia is probably due to clerical error.