Premnoplex brunnescens albescens Griscom, 1927: 5

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Premnoplex brunnescens albescens Griscom, 1927: 5 (east slope of Mt. Tacarcuna, 4600 ft., eastern Panama).

Now Premnoplex brunnescens albescens Griscom, 1927 .

See Wetmore, 1972: 78.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 135863 , adult male, collected on the west slope of Cerro Malí , 08°07′N, 77°14′W (Fairchild and Handley, 1966: 17), at 4600 ft, Darien, Panama, on 13 April 1915, by Harold E. Anthony (no. 222) and David S. Ball.

COMMENTS: Wetmore (1972: 78) placed the type locality of this taxon at the “head of the Río Cutí, on the eastern slope of Cerro Tacarcuna across the boundary in Chocó, Colombia.” However, Fairchild and Handley (1966: 17) listed Cerro Malí as the peak above Tacarcuna Village. Anthony (1916: 358) made his base camp at the village of Tacarcuna and in late March 1915 made a higher camp on the slopes above the village. Dr. Charles O. Handley, Jr. (personal commun.) tells us that the photograph in Anthony (1916: 359) is of a distinctively shaped spur of Cerro Malí that juts into Panama. Although Cerro Malí marks the boundary between Panama and Colombia, Anthony and Ball apparently did not descend onto the Colombian side of the mountain.

The field label gives the altitude of this locality as 5200 ft, the printed label as 4600 ft. The lower alti-

Vaurie (1980: 233, 236) placed this species in

Margarornis .

Premnoplex tatei Chapman

Premnoplex tatei Chapman, 1925b: 7 (Mt. Turumiquire, 7900 ft., N.E. Venezuela).

Now Premnoplex tatei Chapman, 1925 . See Sibley and Monroe, 1990: 405, and Ridgely and Tudor, 1994: 132. HOLOTYPE: AMNH 188018 , adult male, collected on north slope of Cerro Turumiquire , 7900 ft, 10°07′N, 63°52′W, Sucre, Venezuela, on 8 April 1925, by George H. H. Tate (no. 554).

COMMENTS: Vaurie (1980: 227, 233, 236) placed this genus in Margarornis and considered tatei to be a subspecies of M. brunnescens .

Pseudocolaptes lawrencii panamensis Griscom

Pseudocolaptes lawrencii panamensis Griscom, 1924a: 4 (Cerro Flores, alt. 6000 ft., eastern Chiriqui, Panama).

Now Pseudocolaptes lawrencii lawrencii Ridgway. See Wetmore, 1972: 79–81 , and Robbins and Ridgely, 1990: 65.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 182772 , adult male, collected on Cerro Flores , eastern Chiriqui, Panama, on 17 March 1924, by Ludlow Griscom (no. 259) and J. Manson Valentine.

COMMENTS: The published altitude is 6000 ft, but it is noted on the field label as 5500 ft See Margarornis rubiginosus boultoni for additional information on this locality.

Vaurie (1980: 249–251) considered P. lawrencii to be a subspecies of P. boissonneautii .

Pseudocolaptes boisonneautii [sic] meridae Hartert and Goodson Pseudocolaptes boisonneautii [sic] meridae Hartert and Goodson, 1917b: 499 (Vale of Merida).

Now Pseudocolaptes boissonneautii meridae Hartert and Goodson, 1917 . See Phelps and Phelps, 1963: 64, and Fjeldså and Krabbe, 1990: 387.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 524050 , collected at Valle , ca. 08°40′N, 71°06′W, Mérida, Venezuela, on 16 February 1888, by Salomón Briceño Gabaldón. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The collector identified this specimen as a male, but in the original description the authors believed it to be a female, “having the bill very long.” Hartert (1922: 387) identified it as an adult female without comment. The bill measured from the base is 28. 5 mm long.