Leucopeza Bishopi Lawrence

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 7

Leucopeza Bishopi Lawrence

Leucopeza Bishopi Lawrence, 1878: 150 (151 in separate) ( St. Vincent).

Now Setophaga bishopi ( Lawrence, 1878) . See Hellmayr, 1935: 414; Raffaele et al., 1998: 406–407; Curson, 2010b: 761; and Lovette et al., 2010: 765.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 40016, female, AMNH 40017, juvenile male, collected in the crater of Soufrière, 13.21N, 61.11W (Times atlas), St. Vincent Island, West Indies, on 1 and 2 November 1877, respectively, by F.A. Ober (nos. 426 and 428, respectively). From the George N. Lawrence Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Lawrence discussed the four specimens collected by Ober and noted that the types were in USNM. Deignan (1961: 541), in discussing this species, noted that two of the four syntypes, both marked ‘‘Type’’ by Lawrence , were in USNM, but USNM 74100 and 74101 ‘‘have vanished from the collection without trace.’’ AMNH 40016 bears the number 74100, and AMNH 40017 the number 74101 without any indication that they are USNM numbers. Neither of these specimens is marked ‘‘Type’’ by Lawrence , but because he did not distinguish in the original description as to which specimens he considered his types and the above specimens had been cataloged at USNM, these two specimens must also be considered syntypes of bishopi . They had not previously been included with type specimens at AMNH.

The tip of the upper mandible of AMNH 40016 is broken off.

The species bishopi had formerly been included in the monotypic genus Catharopeza , but see Lovette et al. (2010: 765) for its inclusion in the genus Setophaga .