Chlorospingus punctulatus Sclater and Salvin

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 : 65-66

Chlorospingus punctulatus Sclater and Salvin

Chlorospingus punctulatus Sclater and Salvin, 1869: 440 (cordillera of Chucu).

Now Chlorospingus ophthamicus punctulatus Sclater and Salvin, 1869 . See Hellmayr, 1936: 407, Zimmer, 1947b: 2–4, Wetmore et al., 1984: 493– 494, Isler and Isler, 1999: 64–65, Dickinson, 2003: 817, and Wier et al., 2008.

SYNTYPE?: AMNH 40988, female, collected in the Cordillera del Chucu, ca. 08.40N, 80.50W ( Siegel and Olson, 2008), Veraguas, Panama, undated, by Enrique Arcé (no. 2463). From the G.N. Lawrence Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, no type was designated; the authors only mentioned that Arcé had obtained several specimens in the Cordillera Chucu. AMNH 40988 had been obtained by Lawrence from O. Salvin, and is so noted by Lawrence on the reverse of a label that was apparently Salvin’s. The AMNH label, printed ‘‘ Lawrence Collection,’’ is annotated ‘‘may be a cotype’’on the reverse in what appears to be Griscom’s hand. It bears an AMNH type label marked ‘‘Co-type,’’ but because the specimen is undated, its type status is uncertain.

There are several syntypes in BMNH ( Warren and Harrison, 1971: 452). Isler and Isler (1999: 64–65) considered C. punctulatus a monotypic species.