Amblycercus holosericeus australis Chapman, 1919

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 : 46

Amblycercus holosericeus australis Chapman

Amblycercus holosericeus australis Chapman, 1919: 333 (Incachaca (alt. 7700 ft), Prov. Cochabamba, Bolivia).

Now Amblycercus holosericeus australis Chapman, 1919 . See Hellmayr, 1937: 44–45; Blake, 1968: 149; Dickinson, 2003: 769; and Fraga, 2011: 747.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 138594 , adult male, collected at Incachaca , 7700ft, 17.14S, 65.49W ( Paynter, 1992), Cochabamba, Bolivia, on 12 May 1915, by Leo E. Miller (no. 11714) and Howarth Boyle.

COMMENTS: Chapman cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and examined an additional two Peruvian specimens from the Urubamba Valley. Chapman (1921b) did not include this species in his list of Urubamba Valley specimens and there are no Urubamba Valley specimens in AMNH or USNM (C. Milensky, personal commun.) that might have been part of the Yale University–National Geographic Society Expedition to the Urubamba Valley that Chapman had been studying when he described this subspecies. Most of the specimens from that expedition are in USNM, with a subset deposited at AMNH. Therefore, I have not been able to identify his paratypes.

There are four Peruvian specimens that would have been available to Chapman when he described australis. AMNH 166625 , male, and AMNH 170769 , female, collected by Watkins on 11 March 1917, from Limbani , Puno, Peru, have ‘‘Nat. Geog. Soc.’’ stamped on Watkins’ field label ; the male was cataloged with specimens from that expedition. AMNH 146600 , male, and AMNH 146601 , female, were collected by Watkins at Santo Domingo, Puno, Peru, on 24 September 1916 and purchased by AMNH from Watkins in 1918. Both of these localities are near the Bolivian border and far from the Urubamba Valley, and nothing on the labels of these specimens indicates that either pair might have been part of Chapman’s description .