Euetheia sharpei Hartert

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 : 35

Euetheia sharpei Hartert

Euetheia sharpei Hartert, 1893a: 37 ( Bonaire, Curaçao, Aruba).

Now Tiaris bicolor sharpei (Hartert, 1893) . See Hellmayr, 1938: 126, and Dickinson, 2003: 795.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 515275 , adult male, collected on Curaçao, on 28 July 1892, by Ernst Hartert (no. 246). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert did not designate a type in the original description, describing male and female and giving the distribution as Bonaire, Curaçao, and Aruba. Hartert (1919: 154) listed as the type the male specimen from Curaçao bearing his number 246, thereby designating it the lectotype. The total number of specimens was not specified ; a total of eight specimens from the three islands came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. The seven paralectotypes, all collected in June and July 1892 by Ernst and Claudia Hartert, now in AMNH are: Bonaire, AMNH 515270 (Hartert no. 177), female ; Aruba, AMNH 515271 (117) adult male ; Bonaire, AMNH 515272 (163), adult male ; Curaçao, AMNH 515273 (18), AMNH 515274 (40), juvenile males, AMNH 515276 (249) AMNH 515277 (80), adult males .

Hartert (1893b: 314–317) in his report on the birds collected on his 1892 trip, discussed the West Indian forms of Euetheia in detail.

Phonipara fumosa Lawrence

Phonipara fumosa Lawrence, 1874: 396 ( Trinidad) .

Now Tiaris fuliginosus fumosus ( Lawrence, 1874) . See Hellmayr, 1938: 127, Bates, 1997: 99–100, and Dickinson, 2003: 795.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 41330 , unsexed [male plumage], collected on Trinidad Island, West Indies , by A.H. Alexander. From the George N. Lawrence Collection.

COMMENTS: The original description apparently applied to a single male specimen. AMNH 41330 is marked ‘‘Type’’ in Lawrence’s hand, the measurements agree with those given by Lawrence , and it is the only specimen of this form that came to AMNH with the Lawrence Collection.

David and Gosselin (2002: 262) pointed out that the ending of the genus Tiaris is not gender indicative, but that it was originally described in combination with a masculine adjective and should be considered masculine.

A.H. Alexander was a friend of Lawrence’s and, according to Wynne (1969: 14), a taxidermist in New York.