Ramphocoelus, Sclater & Salvin, 1872

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 : 79

Ramphocoelus [sic] atrosericeus capitalis Allen

Ramphocoelus [sic] atrosericeus capitalis Allen, 1892: 51 (El Pilar, Venezuela).

Now Ramphocelus carbo capitalis Allen, 1892 . See Hellmayr, 1936: 255, and Dickinson, 2003: 806.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 56195, male, and AMNH 56196, female, collected at El Pilar, 10.32N, 63.09W ( Paynter, 1982), Sucre, Venezuela, on 5 November 1891, by Amelia Woolworth Smith (Mrs. H.H. Smith).

COMMENTS: Allen designated male and female syntypes of capitalis in the original description, and gave their AMNH numbers.

Allen (1892) only gave the collector’s name as ‘‘Mrs. H.H. Smith.’’ Her given name being Amelia, it was a puzzle, then, that her field labels (which were printed labels from the collection of O. S[alvin] and F.D. G[odman]) should have her initials printed as ‘‘D.W. Smith.’’ This was solved by Wynne (1969: 196), who listed her as ‘‘Amelia (Daisy) Woolworth Smith,’’ and by Sharpe (1906: 368), who noted that Brazilian specimens from the Salvin and Godman collection were ‘‘procured by those truly wonderful collectors Mr. Herbert Smith and Mrs. Daisy W. Smith.’’