Hemispingus superciliaris urubambae J.T. Zimmer, 1947

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 : 68

Hemispingus superciliaris urubambae J.T. Zimmer

Hemispingus superciliaris urubambae J.T. Zimmer, 1947b: 15 (Tocopoqueu, Occobamba Valley, Perú; altitude 9100 feet).

Now Hemispingus superciliaris urubambae J.T. Zimmer, 1947 . See Storer, 1970: 265, Isler and Isler, 1999: 75–76, and Dickinson, 2003: 804.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 166621 , adult male, collected at Tocopoqueyu (5 Tocopoqueu), 9100 ft, ca. 12.53S, 72.21W ( Vaurie, 1972), Ocobamba valley, Cuzco, Peru, on 29 July 1915, by Edmund Heller (no. 397).

COMMENTS: Zimmer cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description. The specimen had been collected by Heller and Harry Watkins on the Yale– National Geographic Peruvian Expedition of 1915–1916. Correspondence in the Archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH, with F.M. Chapman in 1916, indicates that specimens collected on this expedition were eventually to be deposited in USNM, but arrangements were made between Yale University and Chapman to identify the bird specimens, and in return a subset of specimens was to be given to AMNH. On 30 July 1921, 150 specimens were cataloged at AMNH and marked as exchanged from USNM. The specimens had never been cataloged at USNM and were apparently retained at AMNH by Chapman before the remainder was sent to USNM.

Zimmer (1947b: 17) noted that he had examined an additional male specimen from Tocopoqueyu now USNM 273425, and a female specimen from Torontoy, now USNM 273424 (James Dean, personal commun.)