Linaria americana Wied

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 : 69

[ Linaria americana Wied ]

Hellmayr (1938: 265) listed this name, introduced by Wied (1858: 338), and said that the type, from the upper Missouri River (winter) in the Wied Collection, was now in AMNH. Allen’s (1889c) study of Wied types was based on Wied’s Brazilian collection, specimens from which had been purchased for the newly founded AMNH and Linaria americana was thus not mentioned by him. There is an AMNH catalog entry of a mounted bird from the Wied Collection from Missouri at AMNH 3063, with no indication that there was any reason to consider it a type. I have been unable to find this specimen.