Chlorospingus, Cabanis, 1851

LeCroy, Mary, 2012, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 10. Passeriformes: Emberizidae: Emberizinae, Catamblyrhynchinae, Cardinalinae, Thraupinae, And Tersininae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2012 (368), pp. 1-125 : 63

[ Chlorospingus ? speculiferus Lawrence ]

Lawrence (1875: 383) quite clearly stated that the type of this form came from Dr. Gundlach and was in USNM. Nevertheless, AMNH 3262 has a type label attached with reference to the description. On the reverse of the AMNH Lawrence Collection label, someone has written ‘‘According to Wetmore (Bds. of Porto Rico & V.I., 1927, 544, the type of this species is in U.S. Nat. Mus.’’ This is correct, and it is listed by Deignan (1961: 588). Deignan (1961: 590) explained that the five new forms described by Lawrence in the paper cited above have their types in USNM. It is not stated in the description of C. speculiferus whether Lawrence had more than one specimen at that time, and because the AMNH specimen has no original label, is undated, and has no information indicating that it came from Gundlach, I do not consider that it has any claim to type status. Because it bears an AMNH type label, it remains in the type collection with an additional label explaining its status. It was formerly mounted. This species is now in the monotypic genus Nesospingus .