Chlorospingus (Hemispingus) canipileus Chapman

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 12

Chlorospingus (Hemispingus) canipileus Chapman

Chlorospingus (Hemispingus) canipileus Chapman, 1899: 153 (Los Palmales, Venezuela).

Now Myiothlypis griseiceps (Sclater and Salvin, 1868) . See Hellmayr, 1935: 484; Ridgely and Tudor, 1989: 187–188; Curson, 2010b: 788–789; and Lovette et al., 2010: 766.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 70349 , sex?, Los Palmales , ca. 10.17N, 63.45W ( Paynter, 1982), Sucre, Venezuela, on 3 December 1898, by F.W. Ulrich (no. 26).

COMMENTS: In the original description of this form, Chapman gave the AMNH number of the type, his only specimen, as AMNH 57391. AMNH 57391 is the holotype of Rallus longirostris cubanus Chapman, 1892 , from Trinidad, Cuba. I have not been able to trace how this error might have occurred. The correct number of the holotype of Chlorospingus (Hemispingus) canipileus is AMNH 70349; it is marked ‘‘Type’’ in the catalog, all the other data are given correctly, and all the other specimens purchased from Ulrich are cataloged in this series.

Lovette et al. (2010: 766) were unsuccessful in analyzing this species, and its plumage traits are ambiguous. They thought it most likely to fall within the group that they recognized as Miothlypis and recommended ‘‘placing it incertae sedis within that genus pending better information on its precise relationships.’’