Chlorospingus pileatus diversus Griscom, 1924

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 : 66

Chlorospingus pileatus diversus Griscom

Chlorospingus pileatus diversus Griscom, 1924a: 11 (Cerro Flores, alt. 6000 ft., eastern Chiriqui, Panama).

Now Chlorospingus pileatus diversus Griscom, 1924 . See Hellmayr, 1936: 409, Wetmore et al., 1984: 497–498, Isler and Isler, 1999: 66–67, and Dickinson, 2003: 818.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 183044 , adult male, collected on Cerro Flores , 5500 ft, 08.29N, 81.44W ( Siegel and Olson, 2008), Chiriqui, Panama, on 14 March 1924, by Ludlow Griscom and Rex Benson.

COMMENTS: Griscom cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and noted that he had six specimens, including the type. The five paratypes are: AMNH 183043, 183045– 183048, one male and four females, all from Cerro Flores, collected 14 to 18 March 1924. Some authors consider diversus a synonym of nominate pileatus . Griscom (1924b) wrote a popular account of this expedition.

See Siegel and Olson (2008: 168–169) for a discussion of this type locality. The altitude at which the holotype was collected was said in the original description to be 6000 ft, but both the field label and the AMNH label record this as 5500 ft.