Calyptophilus tertius Wetmore, 1929

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 : 72-73

Calyptophilus tertius Wetmore

Calyptophilus tertius Wetmore, 1929: 2 (higher slopes of Morne La Hotte, Haiti).

Now Calyptophilus tertius tertius Wetmore, 1929 . See Hellmayr, 1936: 359, Isler and Isler, 1999: 102–103, Dickinson, 2003: 820, and Latta et al., 2006: 197.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 166421 , adult male, collected on Morne La Hotte , Massif de la Hotte, 18.25N, 73.55W (Keith et al., 2003: 239), Haiti, on 22 June 1917, by Rollo H. Beck (no. 7702) on the Brewster-Sanford Expedition.

COMMENTS: Wetmore gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and noted that he had seven specimens, all in AMNH, collected by Beck ‘‘from June 20 to July 4, 1917, back of Les Anglais on the higher ridges that lead up to the peak of Morne La Hotte ….’’ The six paratypes are: Morne La Hotte , Haiti, AMNH 166418 (Beck’s no. 7726), male, 4 July ; AMNH 166419 (7736), unsexed, 1 July ; AMNH 166420 (7691), male, 20 June ; AMNH 166423 (7699), male, 23 June ; AMNH 166424 (7692), female, 20 June ; AMNH 166525 (7732), female, 4 July, all collected by Rollo H. Beck on the Brewster- Sanford Expedition. AMNH 166418 was exchanged to USNM and is now USNM 311936 ( James Dean , personal commun.) .

AMNH 166422 from the same collection is neither in AMNH or USNM and was probably exchanged before Wetmore studied these specimens, without the catalog having been so marked. Wetmore and Swales (1931: 5, 19) discussed the locality Morne La Hotte and summarized Beck’s itinerary.

For a discussion of the taxonomy and status of the critically endangered endemics C. tertius and C. frugivorus , often considered conspecific, see Latta et al. (2006: 197–198).