Tachyphonus cristatus madeirae Hellmayr, 1910

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 : 75

Tachyphonus cristatus madeirae Hellmayr

Tachyphonus cristatus madeirae Hellmayr, 1910: 277 (Calama) .

Now Tachyphonus cristatus madeirae Hellmayr, 1910 . See Hellmayr, 1936: 330–331, Zimmer, 1945: 17, and Dickinson, 2003: 805.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 510851 , adult male, collected at Calama , 08.03S, 62.53W ( Paynter and Traylor, 1991), Rondônia, Brazil, on 21 August 1907, by Wilhelm Hoffmanns (no. 329). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hellmayr designated as type of madeirae Hoffmanns’ specimen no. 329 and listed four additional specimens from Calama and a specimen from Humaytha obtained by Hoffmanns in 1906. Additionally, he had several examples, including an adult female, collected by Natterer and borrowed from NMW. Paratypes in AMNH are: Humaytha, AMNH 510849 , 29 August 1906, Hoffmanns’ no. 1183 ; Calama, AMNH 510850 , 12 July 1907, Hoffmanns’ no. 209 ; AMNH 510852 , 12 August 1907, Hoffmanns’ no. 386 ; AMNH 510853 , 29 August 1907, Hoffmanns’ no. 483, all males. The specimen bearing Hoffmanns’ no. 249 did not come to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection and must have been exchanged by Rothschild prior to 1932 .

Hellmayr (1910: 257) discussed Hoffmanns’ collecting localities, Calama being on the right bank of the Rio Madeira, just below its junction with the Rio Jiparaná (5 Giparana).