Tachyphonus atricapillus 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 : 77

Tachyphonus atricapillus Lawrence Lanio lawrencii P.L. Sclater

Tachyphonus atricapillus Lawrence, 1868: 360 (The island of Trinidad).

Lanio lawrencii P.L. Sclater, 1885: 272 , pl. 6, fig. 2.

Now Tachyphonus luctuosus flaviventris (P.L. Sclater, 1856) . See Hellmayr, 1936: 339, Zimmer, 1945: 24–25, Storer, 1970: 293, Isler and Isler, 1999: 128–130, and Dickinson, 2003: 805.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 40967 , male?, collected on Trinidad, undated, by A.H. Alexander. From the George N. Lawrence Collection.

COMMENTS: Lawrence had the single specimen. Sclater, having borrowed Lawrence’s unique specimen, decided that is was a young male of a new species of Lanio . There already being a Lanio atricapillus, Sclater provided Lanio lawrencii as a replacement name for Tachyphonus atricapillus Lawrence , and they share the same type; the color of the bird in plate 6 bears little relationship to the actual appearance of the specimen. Zimmer (1945: 24–25) discussed this type and considered it an abnormal adult. Both names are now in the synonymy of T. l. flaviventris, the type locality of which was restricted to Trinidad by Zimmer (1945: 24).

A.H. Alexander was a New York taxidermist known to Lawrence and from whom he obtained this specimen.