Peucedramus olivaceus arizonae Miller and Griscom

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 : 19

Peucedramus olivaceus arizonae Miller and Griscom

Peucedramus olivaceus arizonae Miller and Griscom, 1925: 10 (Paradise, Chiricahua Mts., Arizona).

Now Peucedramus taeniatus arizonae Miller and Griscom, 1925 . See Hellmayr, 1935: 359–360; Zimmer, 1948: 126–127; Lowery and Monroe, 1968: 78; Dickinson, 2003: 739; and Curson, 2010b: 660–665.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 380799 , adult male, collected at Paradise, Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona, on 4 April 1917, by Austin Paul Smith. From the Dwight Collection (no. 47606).

COMMENTS: Miller and Griscom cited the unique Dwight Collection number in the original description and (on p. 13) noted that they had examined from Arizona 20 adult males, nine adult females, 14 immature males and one immature female, and from Mexico, three adult males from Chihuahua and one adult male from Miquihuana , Tamaulipas. The following paratypes are in AMNH: Arizona, AMNH 27850 , 36463 , 53478 , 380789–380798 , 380800–380809 , 11 adult males, three adult females, eight immature males, one immature female ; Mexico, Chihuahua, AMNH 60069 , adult male. I have not considered specimens in AMNH that came with the Sanford Collection as paratypes ; that collection was not cataloged until after Sanford’s death in 1951. Miller and Griscom (1925: 1) borrowed specimens from other institutions and perhaps the paratypes are widely scattered .

Zimmer (1948: 126–127) first realized that Giraud’s 1841 name for the Olive Warbler, Sylvia olivacea , was preoccupied by Sylvia olivacea Vieillot, 1817 . The next available name for the species is Sylvia taeniatus Du Bus, 1847 .

The genus Peucedramus was considered by Lowery and Monroe (1968: 77) as genus incertae sedis at the end of the Parulidae , thus its inclusion in that position here. There has been much research regarding its relationships (see George, 1962, 1968; Webster, 1962; Sibley and Ahlquist, 1990: 691–692; Groth, 1998, 2000; and Ericson and Johansson, 2003), the American Ornithologists’ Union (1998: 532) accepting it as comprising its own family, the Peucedramidae . This has been followed by most recent authors, although the placement of the family varies; see the discussion in Curson (2010b: 660– 662). The generic name Peucedramus should be attributed to Coues rather than Henshaw (Chesser, et al., 2011: 606). Also see Banks (2011) for clarification of the type locality of the nominate subspecies of P. taeniatus .

Peucedramus olivaceus jaliscensis Miller and