Conirostrum ornatum Lawrence

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 65

Conirostrum ornatum Lawrence

Conirostrum ornatum Lawrence, 1851: 112 (no locality given).

Now Auriparus flaviceps ornatus ( Lawrence, 1851) . See Webster, 1999: 3, and Madge, 2008: 74.

SYNTYPE: AMNH 39401, unsexed, collected at Brownsville, 25.54N, 97.30W (Times Atlas), Texas, USA, no date, by Capt. J.P. McCown. From the G.N. Lawrence Collection.

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description, Lawrence only saying that he examined two specimens; the above specimen is the only one in AMNH from the Lawrence Collection that was collected before the publication of ornatum , undoubtedly in 1850 when McCown was stationed at Brownsville ( Mearns and Mearns, 1992: 301). It is illustrated in Lawrence (1851: pl. 5, fig. 1). The original label is not with this specimen; on the Lawrence label, the number 300 appears, the significance of which is unknown. The publication date of this form is often given as 1852 (e.g., Snow, 1967b: 69); although it was included in volume 5 of the Annals of the Lycaeum of Natural History of New York, dated 1852, the description of ornatum was in part 3, issued in May 1851 ( Foster, 1892: 2, and LeCroy, personal observation).