Amazilia cupreicauda Salvin & Godman, 1884

1884 Ibis, Fifth series, 2: 452

Now Amazilia viridigaster cupreicauda Salvin & Godman, 1884 .

See Dickinson & Remsen, 2013: 130.

Syntype: MHNG 868.075, adult male, collected in Guyana, Sierra Roraima in November 1883. From the A. Vaucher collection, acquired by the MHNG in 1941.

Comments: Although the name of the collector is missing on the specimen’s label, the locality and date suggest that this bird belonged to Whitely’s collection, and that it was presumably part of the type series examined by Salvin & Godman (1884: 443). The NHM holds seven other syntypes (Warren, 1966: 73).