Dolospingus nuchalis Elliot

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 : 33

Dolospingus nuchalis Elliot

Dolospingus nuchalis Elliot, 1871: 402 , pl. XI (Orinoco, on the borders of British Guiana).

Now Dolospingus fringilloides (Pelzeln, 1870) . See Berlepsch and Hellmayr, 1905: 23–24, Hellmayr, 1938: 240, Dickinson, 2003: 794, and Ridgely and Tudor, 2009: 631.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 6763 , adult male, collected on the ‘‘Orenoque’’ (as on label), from the collection of Madame Verday (no. 5427).

COMMENTS: When Elliot named this new genus and species, he had a single specimen, which he had purchased from Madame Verday in Paris. In 1869, Elliot bought specimens from the Verday, Verreaux, and Wied collections for the newly founded American Museum of Natural History, and the birds are part of the founding collection. This specimen had been mounted and the AMNH label has what was apparently Verday’s label glued to the back. Pelzeln’s species name, based on the female, has priority over Elliot’s species name, based on the male ( Berlepsch and Hellmayr, 1905: 23–24).