Cistothorus platensis tucumanus Hartert, 1909

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 111

Cistothorus platensis tucumanus Hartert

Cistothorus platensis tucumanus Hartert (in Hartert and Venturi), 1909: 163 (Tucuman).

Now Cistothorus platensis tucumanus Hartert, 1909 . See Herkert et al., 2001: 4, and Brewer and MacKay, 2001: 119.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 502132 , adult female, collected in Tucumán, Argentina, on 30 October 1899, by S. Venturi (no. 136). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Venturi’s field number of the type was given in the original description. The paratype is AMNH 502133.

This taxon is usually cited as having been named by Hartert and Venturi (see for example, Paynter and Vaurie, 1960: 393), but Hartert (in Hartert and Venturi, 1909: 160) said: ‘‘I have critically examined the skins, and am finally responsible for their nomenclature, and all the nomenclatorial and systematic notes are by me... ’’.