Turdus fumigatus caparo Hartert

Mary, Croy, History, Bulletin Of The American Museum Of Natural, At, Central Park West, Street, Th, York, New & Ny, 2005, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 6. Passeriformes: Prunellidae, Turdidae, Orthonychidae, Timaliidae, Paradoxornithidae, Picathartidae, And Polioptilidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (292), pp. 1-132 : 50

Turdus fumigatus caparo Hartert

Turdus fumigatus caparo Hartert, 1920: 475 (Caparo, Trinidad).

Now Turdus fumigatus aquilonalis ( Cherrie, 1909) . See Hellmayr, 1934: 384, and Clement, 2000: 426–427.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 503307 , adult male, collected on the Caparo River , Chaguanas Prov., Trinidad I., Trinidad and Tobago, on 12 April 1902, by Eugene Andre´. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert’s type was a male collected on 12 April 1902 by Andre´. The above specimen, bearing the Rothschild type label, is the only André specimen collected on that date. The 11 paratypes are AMNH 503308– 503318.

This collection was reported on in full by Hellmayr (1906a), where he noted that the Caparo River was one of André’s localities.