Diglossa major gilliardi Chapman, 1939

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 : 103-104

Diglossa major gilliardi Chapman

Diglossa major gilliardi Chapman, 1939: 11 (plateau of Mt. Auyan-tepui, 2200 m., Venezuela).

Now Diglossa major gilliardi Chapman, 1939 . See Vuilleumier, 1969, Storer, 1970: 404, and Dickinson, 2003: 817.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 323595 , adult male, collected on the plateau of Auyán-tepuí,

2200 m., 05.55N, 62.32W ( Paynter, 1982), Bolívar, Venezuela, on 20 December 1937, by E. Thomas Gilliard on the Phelps Venezuela Expedition (no. 659).

COMMENTS: Chapman gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and examined 20 male and 21 female specimens from the same locality. The 40 paratypes are: AMNH 323590–323594, 323596–323609, males; AMNH 323610–323630, females. Of these, AMNH 323594, 323598, and 323617 were sent to Colección Phelps and AMNH 323602 and 323621 were exchanged with LSUMNS in January 1981. I did not find AMNH 323596 in the collection, and it was perhaps exchanged without the catalog having been marked. See Gilliard (1941) and Tate (1938) for notes on this expedition.