Tanagra auricapilla Wied

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 : 77

Tanagra auricapilla Wied

Tanagra auricapilla Wied, 1821: 212 (Arrayal da Conquista, Bahia).

Now Trichothraupis melanops (Vieillot, 1818) . See Allen, 1889b: 220, Hellmayr, 1936: 363, Isler and Isler, 1999: 136–138, and Dickinson, 2003: 805.

? SYNTYPE: AMNH 6864, [adult male], said to be from the Maximilian Collection, original label lost.

COMMENTS: There is no original label on this specimen to connect it with the Maximilian Collection, only a notation in the catalog. Allen (1889b: 220) thought it might be the type of the male of T. auricapilla . It was exchanged to USNM and given USNM no. 76792, then returned to AMNH on 14 November 1889, shortly before Allen’s work on the Maximilian types in AMNH was published in December 1889. On the reverse of the USNM label is the following note: ‘‘Original label lost. R.R[idgway].’’ The specimen had been mounted. It was considered a synonym of Trichothraupis melanops (Vieillot, 1818) by Hellmayr.