Tangara xanthogastra phelpsi J.T. Zimmer, 1943

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 : 94

Tangara xanthogastra phelpsi J.T. Zimmer

Tangara xanthogastra phelpsi J.T. Zimmer, 1943c: 5 (Mt. Auyan-tepui, Venezuela; altitude 1100 meters).

Now Tangara xanthogastra phelpsi J.T. Zimmer, 1943 . See Storer, 1970: 369, Isler and Isler, 1999: 294–295, and Dickinson, 2003: 811.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 325062 , adult male, collected on Auyán-tepuí , 1100 m, 05.55N, 62.32W ( Paynter, 1982), Bolívar, Venezuela, on 6 February 1938, by personel of the Phelps Venezuelan Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (no. 1418).

COMMENTS: Zimmer cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description. His paratypes comprised three additional males, one female, and one sex? from the type locality, one young bird from Rio Caura , and specimens listed by Chubb (1921: 507) from Mt. Roraima and Mt. Kukenam. These last specimens are not in AMNH. The paratypes in AMNH are: Auyán-tepuí , AMNH 323977 , 323978 , 325059 , 325063 , 325065 , three males, one female, one sex ?; Nicare´, Rio Caura , AMNH 512867 , female. Three additional specimens had been collected on Auyán-tepuí, but had been sent to the Phelps Collection prior to Zimmer’s description of phelpsi .

See Tate (1938) for notes on this expedition.