Hemithraupis ruficapilla bahiae J.T. Zimmer, 1947

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 : 70-71

Hemithraupis ruficapilla bahiae J.T. Zimmer

Hemithraupis ruficapilla bahiae J.T. Zimmer, 1947a: 13 (Jaguaquara, central-eastern Bahia, Brazil; altitude 2000 feet).

Now Hemithraupis ruficapilla bahiae J.T. Zimmer, 1947 . See Storer, 1970: 273, and Dickinson, 2003: 814.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 245618 , adult male, collected at Jaguaquara , 2000 ft, 13.32S, 39.58W ( Paynter and Traylor, 1991), Bahia, Brazil, on 1 September 1920, by Emil Kaempfer (no. 6134).

COMMENTS: Zimmer named Bahia birds H. r. bahiae after they were found to be without a name when the Wied type of Hylophilus ruficeps was found to have not come from Bahia (see above). Zimmer cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and listed eight paratypes: Tambury, AMNH 245617, male, 21 October 1927, Kaempfer (no. 6611); Boa Nova, AMNH 245619, 245620, males, 4– 5 June 1928, by Kaempfer (nos. 7028 and 7015, respectively); ‘‘Bahia’’ tradeskins, five males, AMNH 41011, 41012, from the G.N.

Lawrence Collection, and AMNH 511167, 511168, 511170, from the Rothschild Collection.