Microcerculus (1 Viewer)

Maybe the key need a small revision on Microcerculus.

MICROCERCULUS

(Troglodytidae; Ϯ Wing-banded Wren M. bambla) Dim. < Gr. μικρος mikros small; κερκος kerkos tail; "Genus CYPHORINUS. ... b. Microcerculus. 120. CYPHORINUS BAMBLA. Le Bambla de Cayenne, Buff. Pl. Enl. 703 f. 2, unde Turdus bambla, Bodd. Heterocnemis bambla, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1855, p. 146. Myrmothera troglodytes, Less. Descr. d. Mamm. et Ois. p. 301. ... 121. CYPHORINUS MARGINATUS. ... 122. CYPHORINUS ALBIGULARIS. ... 123. CYPHORINUS LEUCOPHRYS. ... 124. CYPHORINUS LEUCOSTICTUS. ... 125. CYPHORINUS PROSTHELEUCUS. ... 126. CYPHORINUS PUSILLUS." (P. Sclater 1862); "Microcerculus Sclater, 1862, Cat. Coll. Amer. Birds, p. 19. Type, by subsequent designation, Turdus bambla Boddaert (Baird, 1864, Rev. Amer. Birds, 1, p. 113)." (Paynter in Peters 1960, IX, 435).

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If we read Zoonomen Salvin 1861 here has priority over Sclater. Poor Philip Lutley Sclater that he might have shown Osbert Salvin his MS before he published the name. Here Sclater, 1862 publication of the name.

1. CYPHORHINUS PHILOMELA.
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Obs. Affinis Cyphorhino bamblae ex Cayenna, sed tectricibus alarum maculatis et non albo vittatis facile notabilis.
This Wren belongs to the division of this genus which Dr. Sclater has classed under the name of Microcerculus.

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Note that, even though it is said to be 'a relative of Cyphorhinus bambla', the only species that is positively included in Microcerculus in the above is Salvin's C. philomela.
If the name is available from here, philomela is the type by monotypy.

Salvin's work is in part II of the 1861 volume of PZS which should in principle have been issued in Aug 1861. (See [here].)

Sclater's work was apparently issued in parts. Microcerculus is in signature II, which bears the date (p. 17) “May 1, 1861”. A signature date usually reflects printing rather than publication, however. The two first gatherings ('Bogen') were announced as having been received in J. Ornithol., 9: 240, in an issue bearing the date “May 1861”. But J. Ornithol. is thought to have been regularly issued several months after date, thus the significance of this is relative. However, the BHL copy (from the Smithsonian Libraries) has a library stamp reading “Oct. 1?. 1861” (? being 0, 8 or 9) on this page - https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32902474 . To me this stamp seems in any case to prove conclusively that Sclater's Microcerculus was indeed published in 1861, 'significantly before' mid-October (*); but this is probably no hard proof that it was issued before Salvin's work.

(*) After the work was published in Britain, it must have travelled to Germany, the Germans (Cabanis ?) must then have had the time to include it in an issue of the journal, and this issue must then have had the time to travel to a N American library, where it received the stamp...