Tangrella velia

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 : 98-99

Tangrella velia signata Hellmayr

Tangrella velia signata Hellmayr, 1905c: 90 (Pará, N.E. Brazil).

Now Tangara velia signata (Hellmayr, 1905) . See Hellmayr, 1936: 72, Isler and Isler, 1999: 325– 327, and Dickinson, 2003: 813.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 512527 , adult male, collected at Belém (5 Pará), 01.27S, 48.29W ( Paynter and Traylor, 1991), northeastern Brazil, undated, by J.B. Steere. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hellmayr said that the type was an adult male from Pará in the Rothschild Collection and mentioned a female collected by Steere. The paratype is AMNH 512528, female. According to Sclater and Salvin (1878: 135), Steere was in the vicinity of Belém between November 1870 and June 1871.