Poecilothraupis palpebrosa caerulescens Taczanowski and Berlepsch

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 : 86

Poecilothraupis palpebrosa caerulescens Taczanowski and Berlepsch

Poecilothraupis palpebrosa caerulescens Taczanowski and Berlepsch (ex Berlepsch ms), 1885: 80 (San Rafael, Ecuador, and Cutervo, Peru).

Now Anisognathus lacrymosus caerulescens ( Taczanowski and Berlepsch, 1885) . See Berlepsch, 1912: 1046, Hellmayr, 1936: 187, Zimmer, 1944: 5–6, Isler and Isler, 1999: 207–208, and Dickinson, 2003: 808.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 138749 , adult male, collected at Cutervo , 06.22S, 78.51W ( Stephens and Traylor, 1983), Cajamarca, northern Peru, on 5 December 1878, by Jean Stolzmann (no. 890). From the Berlepsch Collection (no. 6784).

COMMENTS: In the original description, Taczanowski and Berlesch had a male and two females from San Rafael that were intermediate between nominate specimens from Bogota and Antioquia and specimens from Cutervo, but closer to the latter. No type was designated, but apparently both San Rafael and Cutervo birds were included in caerulescens .

Zimmer (1944: 5–6) first identified this lectotype of caerulescens and discussed it at length. A note by Berlepsch on the front of his label reads: ‘‘Erhalten im Januar 1880 von L. Taczanowski in Warchau [ex. Jean Stolzmann, collector].’’ Zimmer (1944: 6) correctly noted that Berlepsch (1912: 1046) had designated this specimen the lectotype, by citing his collection number for it, and pointed out that Hellmayr (1936: 187) was incorrect in citing as the type a specimen from San Rafael in the Warsaw Museum. Mlíkovský (2009: 158) in his recent list of types in MIZ did not list this form.

This specimen did not come to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection but was acquired for AMNH, probably around 1922, by Elsie M.B. Reichenberger [Naumburg].