Ostinops decumanus maculosus Chapman

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 : 43-44

Ostinops decumanus maculosus Chapman

Ostinops decumanus maculosus Chapman, 1920: 26 (Yungas (alt. 3600 ft), Prov. Cochabamba).

Now Psarocolius decumanus maculosus ( Chapman, 1920) . See Hellmayr, 1937: 14–16; Blake, 1968: 140; Dickinson, 2003: 768; and Fraga, 2011: 754.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 138547 , adult male, collected at Yungas , 3600 ft, 16.20S, 66.45W ( Paynter, 1992), Cochabamba, Bolivia, on 3 June 1915, by Leo Miller (no. 12186) and Howarth Boyle.

COMMENTS: Chapman cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and listed (on pp. 27–28) specimens that he included in maculosus. Of the 12 male (in addition to the type) and eight female Bolivian specimens he included, I found the following nine male and six female paratypes cataloged in AMNH: Yungas , AMNH 138546 , 138548–138554 , four males and four females, June 1915, by Miller and Boyle ; Locotal , AMNH 138556 , 138557 , two females, May 1915, by Miller and Boyle ; Todos Santos , AMNH 138544 , 138545 , two males, July 1915, by Miller and Boyle ; Mission San Antonio, Rio Chimore´ , AMNH 138555 , male, August 1915, by Miller and Boyle ; Tres Arroyas, Rio Espiritu Santo , AMNH 148980 , male, February 1915, by G.K. Cherrie ; Beni River, AMNH 30651 , male, August 1886, by H.H. Rusby. Of these I did not find AMNH 138550 in the collection. I found only one of the Peruvian paratypes in AMNH: Chauillay, Urubamba Cañon, AMNH 145816 , male, July 1916, by Chapman and Cherrie. I found 32 of the 33 Brazilian paratypes in AMNH: Urucum near Corumbá, AMNH 128324–128327 , two males and two females, December 1913, by Miller and Cherrie ; Chapada, AMNH 32804–32827 , 32829–32832 , 16 males, 12 females, by H.H. Smith, 1882–1885. While 13 females were indicated, only 12 were entered in the AMNH catalog. AMNH 32832 bis was not considered a paratype because all of the listed males were found and because the ‘‘bis’’ number was added after the other specimens were cataloged and the specimen label did not bear Chapman’s measurements, as had all of the other specimens. AMNH 32828 , also a male, had been mounted for exhibition in 1905 and would not have been available to Chapman when he named maculosus. Other paratypes were borrowed by Chapman, but he did not indicate which specimens they were .

Fraga (2011: 754) noted that recent DNA studies do not support recognition of maculosus and he synonymized it with nominate decumanus .