Tanagra capistrata Wied, 1821

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 : 61

Tanagra capistrata Wied

Tanagra capistrata Wied, 1821: 179 (Fazenda von Ilha, Campos Geräes).

Now Schistochlamys ruficapillus capistrata ( Wied, 1821) . See Allen, 1889b: 222, Hellmayr, 1936: 443– 444, Storer, 1970: 247, and Dickinson, 2003: 802.

SYNTYPE: AMNH 6861, adult male, collected at Fazenda von Ilha, Campos Geraës, Brazil, by Maximilian, Prince of Wied. From the Maximilian Collection.

COMMENTS: According to Allen (1889b: 222), the original label read: ‘‘ Orchestichus capistratus Wied. Mas. Brasilia. M.R. T. leucophaea Licht. ’’ The label apparently was cut subsequently in order to allow it to be pasted on the back of the AMNH label and now only reads: ‘‘ T. leucophaea Licht. ³, Brasilia. M.R.’’ The manuscript catalog, dated 1865, quoted by Allen (1889b: 222), listed three names: ‘‘ Schistochlamis leucophaea Licht. Caban. ( Tanagra capistrata Spix, Wied , Tanagra leucophaea Licht. ).’’ Both the Lichtenstein and Spix names were published after Wied’s publication of capistrata and are synonyms. Later, Wied (1830: 500–504) gave descriptions of both male and female and his catalog listed male and female, so there was at least one additional syntype.

This specimen had been inadvertently exchanged with USNM, possibly because Wied’s name had been cut off of the original label, and it was returned to AMNH on 14 November 1889, apparently just before Allen’s paper on the Wied types was published in December 1889. It had been given the USNM no. 76789, which appears on the Wied label. The specimen was formerly mounted.

Paynter and Traylor (1991) equated Fazenda Ilha with Ilha Dentro, 15.06S, 41.41W, Bahia, about 5 km from the border with Minas Gerais. The generic name Schistochlamys Reichenbach, 1850 , has been conserved, with Tanagra capistrata Wied, 1821 , as its type species (see Gregory, 2000, and ICZN, 2004).