RHINOCRYPTIDAE, Wetmore, 1930

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 : 66

RHINOCRYPTIDAE Scelorchilus rubecola [sic] mochae Chapman

Scelorchilus rubecola [sic] mochae Chapman, 1934: 3 (Mocha Island, Chile).

Now Scelorchilus rubecula mochae Chapman, 1934 . See Ridgely and Tudor, 1994: 404.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 387370 , adult male, collected on Isla Mocha , 38°22′S, 73°56′W, Arauco, Chile, on 11 November 1932, by Dillman S. Bullock (no. 1453).

Liosceles erithacus Sclater

Liosceles erithacus Sclater, 1890: 345 (Sarayacu, Ecuador).

Now Liosceles thoracicus erithacus Sclater, 1890 . See Peters, 1951: 280.

SYNTYPE: AMNH 156320, unsexed, collected at Sarayacu, 01°44′S, 77°29′W, Pastaza, Ecuador, in February 1880, by Clarence Buckley. From the Salvin and Godman Collection, received in exchange from The Natural History Museum (formerly the British Museum [Natural History]) in August 1921. COMMENTS: In the original description, there were 5 syntypes, all from Sarayacu and collected in February 1880 by Clarence Buckley. Four are in The Natural History Museum, Tring: 2 adult males and 1 adult female from the Salvin and Godman Collection and 1 adult male from the Sclater Collection (Warren and Harrison, 1971: 162, and M. Walters, personal commun.). The fifth specimen was listed as a juvenile from the Salvin and Godman Collection, and is undoubtedly this specimen.

Myiothera rhynolopha Wied

Myiothera rhynolopha Wied, 1831: 1051 (Flusse Belmonte).

Now Merulaxis ater Lesson, 1830 /31. See Cory and Hellmayr, 1924: 9, Sick, 1960: 150–155, and Krabbe and Schulenberg, 1997: 83.

SYNTYPE: AMNH 6831, adult male, collected at Belmonte, 15°51′S, 38°54′W, at the mouth of the Rio Jequitinhonha, Bahia, Brazil.

COMMENTS: Wied (1831: 1051–1055), in the reverse of his usual procedure, described the female before the male. This probably caused Cory and Hellmayr (1924: 9) to conclude that only the female was described. This male is the only syntype now in the AMNH, although Allen (1889b: 257) noted that Wied’s catalog listed both a male and a female.