Euphonia elegantissima vincens Hartert, 1913

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 : 88-89

Euphonia elegantissima vincens Hartert

Euphonia elegantissima vincens Hartert, 1913: 77 (San Jose´, Costa Rica).

Now Euphonia elegantissima elegantissima ( Bonaparte, 1838) . See Hellmayr, 1936: 21–22, Storer, 1970: 348, Wetmore et al., 1984: 393–395; Isler and Isler, 1999: 241–242, and Dickinson, 2003: 821.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 511894 , adult male, collected at San Jose´ , 09.59N, 84.04W (Times Atlas), Costa Rica, on 20 January 1898, by C.F. Underwood. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert designated as the type of E. e. vincens a male specimen in the Rothschild Collection collected on 20 January 1898 at San José by Underwood and gave the range as Costa Rica and Chiriqui.The following are paratypes, all collected by Underwood in Costa Rica: AMNH 511889 , female, La Estrella, 9 June 1893 ; AMNH 511890 , male, Rancho Redondo , 20 July 1893 ; AMNH 511891 , male, AMNH 511892 , sex?, Azoban de Cartago, 19 March 1895 and 3 April 1895 ; AMNH 511893 , male, Escazu , 17 September 1898 ; AMNH 511895 , female, San Jose´ , 20 January 1898. AMNH 511885 , an unsexed and undated specimen from Veragua, Panama, is the only possible Chiriqui specimen that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection ; it is considered a paratype of

vincens. Siegel and Olson (2008: 106) noted that the Province of Chiriqui was ‘‘formerly included under the old term ‘Veragua.’’’