Mimus melanopterus Lawrence

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 125-126

Mimus melanopterus Lawrence

Mimus melanopterus Lawrence, 1849: 35 and pl. 2 ( Venezuela).

Now Mimus gilvus melanopterus Lawrence, 1849 . See Meyer de Schauensee and Phelps, 1978: 295, and Brewer and MacKay, 2001: 214.

SYNTYPE: AMNH 3278, unsexed adult, collect­ ed in Venezuela in the winter of 1845, by William Galbraith. From the George N. Lawrence Collection.

COMMENTS: The label on the above specimen has the initials ‘‘ W.G. ’’, ‘‘ Venezuela’ ’, ‘‘type’’, and ‘‘figured in Annals Lyceum’ ’ written in Lawrence’s hand. Lawrence (1849: 36) noted that he had examined the three specimens collected by William Galbraith. Two specimens in addition to the syntype came to AMNH with the Lawrence Collection. AMNH 39264 is from Barranquilla , Colombia, and was collected by Crowther ; it has no standing as a type. AMNH 39265 is from Venezuela, but with no indication of the collector, nor is ‘‘type’’ written on the label. Someone , in a hand unknown, has written on the AMNH label of this specimen that it is probably a topotype. Without further information, its status can be taken no further .

The syntype listed above has been dismounted and may be the specimen that was depicted in plate 2, with the description.