Troglodytes inquietus Baird

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 119-120

Troglodytes inquietus Baird

Troglodytes inquietus Baird (ex Lawrence MS), 1864:

138 (in key), 143 ( Panama R.R.).

Now Troglodytes aedon inquietus Baird, 1864 . See Wetmore et al., 1984: 102, and Johnson, 1998: 4.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 39534, adult male, and AMNH 39535, adult female, collected along the old Panama Railroad, Isthmus of Panama, Panama, by James McLeannan and John R. Galbraith. From the George N. Lawrence Collection.

COMMENTS: Baird described Troglodytes inquietus from a Lawrence manuscript name. In his catalog, Lawrence (1861b: 320) had called it Troglodytes hypaëdon (species no. 188).

In the original description, Baird (1864 –1866: 143) recorded both specimens as female, but this is a lapsus, as the first bird described is the male. At the end of this first description he said, ‘‘Of the two specimens, the ϐ is considerably lighter, almost white beneath.’’ This is true of the male specimen. Also at the bottom of the page, Baird listed the two specimens and there gave the sexes correctly. These are the only two specimens of this taxon that came to AMNH with the Lawrence Collection. Someone, in a hand unknown, has written ‘‘not a type’’ on the reverse of the type label of the male, but this is an error. Both specimens are marked ‘‘type’’ in Lawrence’s hand, and the description is credited to Baird. I have not been able to trace the number 109 that appears on the Lawrence labels of both specimens. As noted above, the Lawrence species number for these specimens is 188.

Brewer and MacKay (2001: 173) recognized Troglodytes musculus with inquietus a subspecies thereof.