Granatellus pelzelni paraensis Rothschild, 1906

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 : 20-21

Granatellus pelzelni paraensis Rothschild

Granatellus pelzelni paraensis Rothschild, 1906: 81 (Prata, near Para).

Now Granatellus pelzelni paraensis Rothschild, 1906 . See Hellmayr, 1935: 450–451; Lowery and Monroe, 1968: 81; Dickinson, 2003: 768; and Curson, 2010b: 800.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 507758 , adult male, collected at Prata , Pará, Brazil, on 17 November 1905, by W. Hoffmanns (no. 141). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Rothschild gave Hoffmanns’ unique field number of the holotype and described both male and female. There are only two specimens in AMNH from the Rothschild Collection that were collected by Hoffmanns in Pará. The paratype is: AMNH 507757, female, collected at Prata on 15 November 1905 by Hoffmanns (no. 132).

According to Paynter and Traylor (1991: 563) Prata is a former name of São Jorge, 01.18S, 47.36 or ‘‘may be a site different from, but close to, Santo Antônio do Prata,’’ ca. 01.20S, 47.37W.