Euphonia purpurea Lawrence

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 : 88

Euphonia purpurea Lawrence

Euphonia purpurea Lawrence, 1867b: 466 (South America, precise locality unknown).

Now Euphonia violacea violacea (Linnaeus, 1758) . See Sclater 1885: 272, Hellmayr, 1936: 53–55, and Dickinson, 2003: 821.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 40501 , male, South America , undated. From the George N. Lawrence Collection.

COMMENTS: Lawrence apparently had a single specimen, the label of which is marked ‘‘Type’’ by Lawrence . The measurements given by Lawrence in his description are written on his label with the comment: ‘‘more intense violet, tail shorter.’’ The initials I. & S. also appear and may represent a dealer from whom the specimen was purchased. A second label bears this comment: ‘‘Mr. Sclater Ibis 1885, p. 272, says it is violacea – it differs decidedly in my opinion.’’ There are also a printed Lawrence Collection label and an AMNH type label.