Tanagra elegans Wied

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 : 92

Tanagra elegans Wied

Tanagra elegans Wied, 1820: 187 ( Barra de Jucú ).

Now Tangara cyanoventris (Vieillot, 1819) . See Allen, 1889b: 219, Hellmayr, 1936: 90, Isler and Isler, 1999: 283–285, and Dickinson, 2003: 810.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 4422 , adult male, collected near Rio Jucu (5 Barra de Jucú ), 20.24S, 40.19W ( Paynter and Traylor, 1991), Espírito Santo, Brazil, undated, by Maximilian, Prince of Wied. From the Maximilian Collection.

COMMENTS: As Allen (1889b: 219) noted, the original label for this specimen is lost, but he considered AMNH 4422 to be ‘‘unquestionably the original of Wied’s description.’’ Wied (1830: 464–467) stated that he had a single male specimen, and considered T. elegans to be the same as T. citrinella Temminck, 1821 . Both of these names are synonyms of Tangara cyanoventris (Vieillot, 1819) ; see Hellmayr (1936: 90). The specimen had been mounted.