Certhiola atrata Lawrence, 1878

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 23-24

Certhiola atrata Lawrence

Certhiola atrata Lawrence, 1878: 149 [150, in repaginated reprint] (Island of St. Vincent, West Indies).

Now Coereba flaveola atrata ( Lawrence, 1878) . See Hellmayr, 1935: 303–304; Deignan, 1961: 523– 524; Dickinson, 2003: 776.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 40276 (USNM 74097), adult male, and AMNH 40277 (USNM 74096), adult female, both collected at the foot of La Soufrière, 13.21N, 145.06W (Times atlas), St. Vincent Island, West Indies, on 30 October 1877, by F.A. Ober (nos. 420 and 418, respectively).

COMMENTS: In the original description, Lawrence said that he had four black specimens, two of each sex, and that the types were in USNM, but he did not further designate them; therefore, all four specimens are syntypes. Deignan (1961: 523–524) noted that only two of the types, both marked ‘‘Type’’ by Lawrence , were in USNM. These two specimens are the two missing syntypes even though they are not marked ‘‘Type’’ by Lawrence , as they bear USNM numbers in the same sequence as the USNM number on the syntypes in USNM and were collected on the same day by Ober. They came to AMNH with the Lawrence Collection and had not previously been recognized as types.