Thamnophilus leucopygus Lawrence
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Thamnophilus leucopygus Lawrence
Thamnophilus leucopygus Lawrence, 1866: 401 (‘‘ New
Granada, line of the Panama R.R., Lion Hill station’’). Now Dryoscopus cubla View in CoL ssp?. See Salvin, 1874: 316.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 47139 View Materials , adult male of uncertain origin. From the G.N. Lawrence Collection.
COMMENTS: Lawrence (1866: 401) described this specimen as part of a collection he received from James McLeannan from the Isthmus of Panama ( LeCroy and Sloss, 2000: 37). There is no original label on the specimen. There is a label in Lawrence’s hand giving the supposed collecting information, with ‘‘Type’’ written on the reverse, and another similar label, also in Lawrence’s hand: ‘‘Salvin says is from Africa’’. The third and fourth labels are AMNH collection and type labels, the latter of which has a reference to Salvin’s (1874) paper.
Salvin (1874: 316) wrote: ‘‘On examining the type of [ Thamnophilus leucopygus ] in Mr. Lawrence’s collection, I felt convinced that an error had been made in assigning the Isthmus of Panama as the origin of the skin. I now find that the bird really belongs to the common African species, Dryoscopus cubla (Lath.) , Sharpe’s Cat. Afr. Birds, p. 47. In some exchanges I made with McLeannan, I sent him a number of African skins; doubtless this one was included by mistake in a collection forwarded to Mr. Lawrence from Panama, and thus misled the latter gentleman as to the origin of the specimen.’’
This does appear to be a male specimen and can be matched by male specimens of Dryoscopus cubla hamatus Hartlaub, 1863 . Given the uncertainty of the geographic origin of the specimen and the individual variation within the currently recognized subspecies, definite determination of synonymy may not be possible.
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Thamnophilus leucopygus Lawrence
LeCROY, M. A. R. Y. 2003 |
Thamnophilus leucopygus
Lawrence, G. N. 1866: 401 |