Tachyphonus surinamus insignis Hellmayr, 1906

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 : 76-77

Tachyphonus surinamus insignis Hellmayr

Tachyphonus surinamus insignis Hellmayr, 1906c: 357 (Bemfica, Pará).

Now Tachyphonus surinamus insignis Hellmayr, 1906 . See Hellmayr, 1936: 334, Isler and Isler, 1999: 126–128, and Dickinson, 2003: 805.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 510899 , adult male, collected at Benfica (5 Bemfica), 01.18S, 48.18W ( Paynter and Traylor, 1991), Pará, Brazil, undated, by J.B. Steere. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hellmayr designated the only adult male he examined from ‘‘Bemfica’’ as the type of insignis. While the description was based only on adult males, Hellmayr exam- ined other specimens from Pará and Borba, localities from which he had adult males. There are seven paratypes of insignis in AMNH from Pará, all of which have been labeled insignis by Hellmayr: AMNH 510900 , sex? [immature male], Benfica, undated ; AMNH 510901 , female, Pará, 5 September [year not given], both collected by J.B. Steere ; AMNH 510902 , female, AMNH 510903 , female, AMNH 510904 , male, all three from Igarapé-Assú, in January or April 1904, by A. Robert ; AMNH 510905 , male, AMNH 510906 , female, Prata near Pará, in November and December 1905, by W. Hoffmanns. All of the paratypes came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. The three adult males, and perhaps other specimens, from Borba were collected by Natterer and are probably in NMW .

Paynter and Traylor (1991: 72), under the entry for Benfica, noted that Steere collected there in July and August, with year not given. Sclater and Salvin (1878: 135) traced Steere’s movements in South America and said he left Belem (5 Pará) in June 1871 and moved upriver to Santarem. It must have been during this period that he visited Benfica.