Hirundo pascuum Wied

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 : 30-31

[ Hirundo pascuum Wied ]

Apparently the type of this form was lost prior to the publication of its description ( Wied, 1830: 360). Of this taxon, Wied (1830: 361) said: ‘‘Da ich nur ein Exemplar der Hirundo pascuum erhielt, und dasselbe jetzt nicht mehr besitze... ’’. It is usually considered a synonym of P. tapera (see Allen, 1889b: 216).

Progne murphyi Chapman

Progne murphyi Chapman, 1925a: 6 (cliffs near Talara, coast of northwestern Peru).

Now Progne modesta murphyi Chapman, 1925 . See Turner and Rose, 1989: 131, and Sibley and Monroe, 1990: 574.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 186307 , adult female, collected on the cliffs south of Talara , 04°34′S, 81°17′W ( Stephens and Traylor, 1983: 211), Piura, Peru, on 23 January 1925, by Robert Cushman Murphy (no. 4021) and Van Campen Heilner. COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description . Paratypes are AMNH 152257, juv. male from Huaral, and AMNH 186305 and 186306, both males from Talara.

This is still considered a monotypic species by some authors (American Ornithologists’ Union, 1998: 456).

Hirundo minuta Wied

Hirundo minuta Wied, 1821: 336 (Rio de Janeiro).

Now Notiochelidon cyanoleuca cyanoleuca (Vieillot, 1817) . See Allen, 1889b: 216–217, and Turner and Rose, 1989: 116.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 6759, adult male, and AMNH 6760, adult female, collected at Rio de Janeiro, 22°54′S, 43°14′W ( Paynter and Traylor, 1991: 520), Brazil, by Maximilian, Prince of Wied. From the Maximilian Collection.

COMMENTS: This description appeared in volume 2 of Wied’s ‘‘Reise’’ in the ‘‘Berichtigungen und Zusätze’’ for volume 1. According to Wied (1830: 371), these specimens were the basis of Temminck’s (1823, in Temminck and Laugier, 1820 –1839) plate 209, figure 1. Temminck, however, depicted only one individual and listed several collections that had specimens, including Wied’s.

These are the only two specimens of this taxon that came to AMNH with the Maximilian Collection. For a recent reveiw of information relating to the publication of Temminck and Laugier, see Dickinson (2001).