Hyloctistes virgatus nicaraguae Miller and Griscom

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 : 29

Hyloctistes virgatus nicaraguae Miller and Griscom ,

1925: 2 (Rio Grande, Nicaragua).

Now Hyloctistes subulatus nicaraguae Miller and Griscom, 1925 . See Peters, 1951: 123.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 102861 , adult male, collected at Río Grande , Nicaragua, on 1 April 1908, by William B. Richardson.

COMMENTS: According to a letter in the Department of Ornithology Archives from Richardson to Allen, 5 October 1908, Richardson was enclosing a rough map of his collecting localities. This map is no longer present. However, Allen (1908: 647) reported on the mammals collected by Richardson on this trip and placed Río Grande south of Tuma and at a somewhat lower altitude. Gazetteer no. 25, 1956, of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names gives 13°04′N, 85°48′W as the coordinates of Tuma and lists a town called Río Grande at 12°59′N, 86°34′W, which may be where Richardson collected. In his letter, Richardson stated that he collected “down on the Atlantic slope to 700 feet where it rains the year round.”

Vaurie (1971a: 13) synonymized Hyloctistes with Philydor .