Grallaria perspicillata Lawrence, 1861b: 303

LECROY, MARY & SLOSS, RICHARD, 2000, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 3. Passeriformes: Eurylaimidae, Dendrocolaptidae, Furnariidae, Formicariidae, Conopophagidae, And Rhinocryptidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2000 (257), pp. 1-88 : 64-65

Grallaria perspicillata Lawrence, 1861b: 303 (New

Now Hylopezus perspicillatus perspicillatus (Lawrence,

1861). See American Ornithologists’ Union, 1998: 371.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 43556, unsexed, AMNH 43557, male, and AMNH 43558, female, collected on the old Panama railroad, Isthmus of Panama, Panama, by James McLeannan and John R. Galbraith. From the George N. Lawrence Collection.

COMMENTS: These specimens had not previously been recognized as types in the AMNH collection.

When Lawrence (1861a: 288–302) began his “Catalogue of a Collection of Birds Made in New Grenada...,” he had only a collection made by James McLeannan; the collecting locality was said to be the “Atlantic side of the Isthmus of Panama, along the line of the Panama Railroad, from near the coast to about a central point between the two oceans.” This first part of the catalog covered through his species number 142— Heliornis fulica . On the pages following (Lawrence, 1861b: 303–305), he named 3 new Panamanian species, including G. perspicillata . Beginning again on page 315, Lawrence (1861c) continued his catalog with species number 143— Spizaëtus tyrannus —but noted that he had received a second collection made by both McLeannan and Galbraith, again mostly on the Atlantic side of the Isthmus. The exceptions do not include this species. Therefore, all three specimens are from the Atlantic slope, and Lion Hill may be considered the type locality, as was done by Cory and Hellmayr (1924: 354). For further discussion of this locality, see Dendrornis nana .

Of the 3 specimens listed above, the unsexed specimen was collected by McLeannan alone and the male and female by both collectors. Both male and female are described by Lawrence; therefore, he had all 3 in hand by the time the description was published and all 3 are syntypes. The publication date of 1862 is that given by Foster (1892: 13) and followed by Cory and Hellmayr (1924: 354). It refers to the date of the publication of the title page for the entire volume. The date of 1861 cited by Wetmore (1972: 253) and others is the date the description was actually issued (1861a in January and 1861b and 1861c in June). These are the only 3 specimens of Grallaria perspicillata cataloged with the Lawrence Collection.