Coereba luteola montana Lowe

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 : 24

Coereba luteola montana Lowe

Coereba luteola montana Lowe, 1912: 509 (Merida (1600 metres)).

Now Coereba flaveola montana Lowe, 1912 . See Hellmayr, 1935: 293–294; Lowery and Monroe, 1968: 92; Dickinson, 2003: 776; and Hilty, 2011: 328–329.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 507910 , adult male, collected in the Cordillera do Mérida, 1600 m, western Venezuela, on 20 February 1897, by Salamon Briceño. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Lowe said that he had examined 19 specimens from the mountainous district of Mérida, all of which were in the Rothschild Collection. His type of montana was the only specimen bearing the date 20 February 1897. The 18 paratypes are: AMNH 507911–507926 , seven males, two females, seven unsexed, all collected by Briceño ; AMNH 507932 , 507933 , unsexed, from the Boucard Collection. There are five additional Rothschild specimens from Mérida, apparently collected by Mocquerys. There is no information on when Rothschild obtained them, but they were not examined by Lowe. Salamon Briceño’s name is sometimes written S. Briceño G. or S.B. Gabaldon. AMNH 100882–100886 were collected by ‘‘ S.B. Gabaldon’ ’ but were never part of the Rothschild Collection .