Chlorospingus nigrifrons Lawrence

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 : 67

[ Chlorospingus nigrifrons Lawrence ]

Lawrence (1875b: 384) named C. nigrifrons , now Hemispingus superciliaris nigrifrons , without stating where the type was held. No Lawrence specimen in AMNH had been claimed as the type, even though Berlepsch (1912: 1093) and Hellmayr (1936: 422) had said that it was held in the Lawrence Collection at AMNH. Deignan (1961: 589– 590) listed the type in USNM, and this is undoubtedly correct. He noted ( Deignan, 1961: 590) that the two forms that were named by Lawrence (1875) , without mention of where the types were housed, had been in the collection of Wesleyan University and later were returned to USNM per agreement. The two specimens in AMNH that might have been considered types of nigrifrons are not marked ‘‘Type’’ in the usual way by Lawrence and, unlike the USNM specimen, neither has the published measurements written on its label.