Iridosornis rufi-vertex subsimilis J.T. Zimmer

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 : 87-88

Iridosornis rufi-vertex subsimilis J.T. Zimmer

Iridosornis rufi-vertex subsimilis J.T. Zimmer, 1944: 1 (Mindo Valley, western Ecuador; altitude 9400 feet).

Now Iridosornis rufivertex subsimilis J.T. Zimmer, 1944 . See Chapman, 1926: 666–667, Storer,

1970: 337, Isler and Isler, 1999: 216–218, and Dickinson, 2003: 809.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 173618 , adult male, collected in the Mindo Valley , 9400 ft, 00.02S, 78.48W ( Paynter, 1993), Pichincha, Ecuador, on 4 September 1922, by Frank M. Chapman, G.K. Cherrie, and Geoffrey O’Connell.

COMMENTS: Zimmer cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description, and listed 15 specimens in his type series. The 14 paratypes are: Nono, AMNH 30338 , 30339 , sex ?; ‘‘ Quito-skin ,’’ AMNH 40708 , sex ?; Gualea , AMNH 125180– 125182 , one male, two females ; Verdecocha , AMNH 173619 , 173620 , one male, one female ; ‘‘ Chivinda’ ’ ( ex Buckley ), AMNH 513710 , male ; above Intac , AMNH 513712 , 513713 , two males ; Mindo , AMNH 513714 , male ; west side Pichincha, AMNH 513715 , female ; Aloag , AMNH 513716 , female .