Helminthophaga Lawrencii Herrick

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 5

Helminthophaga Lawrencii Herrick

Helminthophaga Lawrencii Herrick, 1875: 220 , pl. 15 (on the bank of the Passaic, near Chatham).

Now considered a hybrid between Vermivora cyanoptera and V. chrysoptera . See Hellmayr, 1935: 336; Gill, 1980; Olson and Reveal, 2009; Curson, 2010b: 675, 739; and Lovette et al., 2010: 764.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 325755, unsexed [adult male], collected on the Passaic River, near Chatham, 40.44N, 74.23W (Times atlas), New Jersey, in May 1874, by D.B. Dickinson.

COMMENTS: Herrick had the single specimen, which he apparently returned to Dickinson. The holotype was presented to AMNH by Edna Dickinson on 11 July 1941.

Lawrence’s Warbler has long been considered a hybrid between the Blue-winged Warbler and the Golden-winged Warbler. Until recently the Latin name of the former has been cited as Vermivora pinus (Linnaeus, 1766) (American Ornithologists’ Union, 1998: 533; Dickinson, 2003: 759). Olson and Reveal (2009) readdressed this name, finding that Wilson had restricted Linnaeus’ name pinus to the Pine Warbler and had provided the name Sylvia solitaria for the Blue-winged Warbler. Because that name is preoccupied, Olson and Reveal (2009) provided V ermivora cyanoptera as a replacement name.