Calliste versicolor 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 : 96

Calliste versicolor Lawrence

Calliste versicolor Lawrence, 1878b: 152 ( St. Vincent, West Indies).

Now Tangara cucullata versicolor (Lawrence, 1878) . See Hellmayr, 1936: 154, Deignan, 1961: 378, Isler and Isler, 1999: 306, and Dickinson, 2003: 811.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 40673 (Ober no. 468, USNM no. 74077), female, and AMNH 40681 (465, 74080), male, collected on St. Vincent Island, West Indies, in February 1878, by Frederick A. Ober. From the George N. Lawrence Collection.

COMMENTS: When Lawrence described versicolor , he published descriptions of male and female and stated that Ober had collected five specimens and that the types were in the ‘‘National Museum, Washington,’’ without designating a particular specimen as type. Deignan (1961: 578) noted that there were five syntypes, two of which were in USNM, but that the other three had ‘‘vanished from the collection without a trace.’’ Two of the vanished three came to AMNH with the Lawrence Collection, but have not been previously recognized as types; the USNM numbers are written on Lawrence’s label in the same ink as the label but without indicating to what the number refers. The still missing syntype is a male with USNM no. 74078. Because Lawrence and Cassin at ANSP frequently exchanged specimens, I thought the missing syntype might be in that institution, but N. Rice (personal commun.) did not find it after checking the collection.