Sporathraupis cyanocephala margaritae Chapman, 1912

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 : 84-85

Sporathraupis cyanocephala margaritae Chapman

Sporathraupis cyanocephala margaritae Chapman, 1912: 165 (Valparaiso, alt. 5000 ft., Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, Colombia).

Now Thraupis cyanocephala margaritae ( Chapman, 1912) . See Hellmayr, 1936: 232–233, Isler and Isler, 1999: 194–195, and Dickinson, 2003: 807.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 72469 , adult male, collected at Cincinati (5 Valparaiso, 5000

ft, 11.06N, 74.06W ( Paynter, 1997), Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia, on 1 April 1899, by Amelia Woolworth Smith (Mrs. Henry H. Smith) and G[race] H.H[ull].

COMMENTS: Chapman cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and noted that he had only two specimens. The paratype is: AMNH 72470, female, El Libano, 11 May 1899, collected by G.H. Hull.

Allen (1900: 122) published a report on the Smiths’ collection in Santa Marta and noted that most of the specimens were collected by Mrs. Smith with G.H. Hull. The initials ‘‘G.H.H.’’ appear on the label of the holotype along with Mrs. Smith’s printed name; on the label of the paratype, Mrs. Smith’s name has a line through it and G.H. Hull’s name written in. Grace H. Hull was Amelia Smith’s niece and collected with her. Allen (1900: 168) listed these two specimens under Tanagra cyanocephala auricrissa . Chapman apparently enjoyed Allen’s play on Amelia Smith’s nickname, ‘‘Daisy,’’ and repeated the name margaritae here (see Calliste margaritae ).