An Unrecorded Specimen of Neochloe Brevipennis
An Unrecorded Specimen of Neochloe brevipennis,When describing a new subspecies of Neochloe brevipennis from a male taken near Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico, Miller and Ray (Condor, 46, 1944:41-45) listed every skin of this rare species of vireo known to have been collected ‘in the period between 1856 and 1940, six in all. It may prove of interest therefore that the Zoological Museum of Berlin received in 1932 a beautiful specimen of this species, formerly mounted (Z. M. B. No. 32.25), which was collected at the Hacienda de Fuxpango, Qrizaba, Vera Cruz, Mexico. Neither date nor collector is indicated on the label, which bears a mysterious original number (No. 275). Possibly the bird is one of Matte0 Botteri’s specimens of which only two could be traced by Miller and Ray. The wing measures 56.9 mm., the cuhnen about 9 mm.-ERWIN STRESEMANN, Zoological Museum, Berlin, Germany, August 4, 1947.
