Myiagrus lineatus Wied, 1831: 1046

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 : 65-66

Myiagrus lineatus Wied, 1831: 1046 (in der Gegend der

Arrayal da Conquista im Sertong der Provinz Bahiá).

Now Conopophaga lineata lineata (Wied, 1831) . See Sibley and Monroe, 1990: 419, and Ridgely and Tudor,

1994: 397.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 6777 , adult female, collected at Vitória da Conquista , 14°51′S, 40°51′W, Bahia, Brazil, by Maximilian, Prince of Wied. From the Maximilian Collection.

COMMENTS: Allen (1889b: 256) gave the type locality as Arrayal da Conquista, as in the original description; Paynter and Traylor (1991: 38) equated this with Vitória da Conquista. As Allen mentioned, the original label contains the word “Curumanço,” which he believed to be a locality. We have not been able to trace this word.

Conopophaga aurita inexpectata Zimmer Conopophaga aurita inexpectata Zimmer, 1931a: 8 (Tabocal, Rio Negro, Brazil).

Now Conopophaga aurita inexpectata Zimmer, 1931 . See

Pinto, 1978: 413.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 310500 (not 301500), adult male, collected at Tabocal , ca. 00°24′S, 65°02′W (Haffer, 1974: 39), Rio Negro, Amazonas, Brazil, on 11 September 1929, by Ramón Olalla.

COMMENTS: Tabocal was described in the Olallas’ itinerary thus: “September 11th Ramon Olalla and four assistants left Sta. Isabel on a canoe reaching that afternoon Tabocal, Wnuichy [?] Canal, that is, the canal to the right where the river forks, two or three miles above Sta. Isabel, where they stayed till the 20th.” Sta. Isabel is now known as Tapurucuará, 00°24′S, 65°02′W (Paynter and Traylor, 1991: 546, 625). Tabocal (1) and (2) listed by Paynter and Traylor (1991: 616) are the same place, and Haffer’s (1974: 39) coordinates given for Tabocal (1) are correct and are practically identical with those given by Vanzolini (1992: 169).

Conopophaga roberti Hellmayr

Conopophaga roberti Hellmayr, 1905a: 54 (Igarapé-Attú, near Pará, Brazil).

Now Conopophaga roberti Hellmayr, 1905 . See Ridgely and Tudor, 1994: 399, and Sick, 1997: 556.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 488908 , adult male, collected at Igarapé Açu , 01°07′S, 47°37′W, Pará, Brazil, on 4 April 1904, by Alphonse Robert (no. 2032). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: For a discussion of this locality, see Cercomacra sclateri .

Conopophaga castaneiceps chocoensis Chapman

Conopophaga castaneiceps chocoensis Chapman, 1915a: 641 (Baudo Mts. (3500 ft.), Choco, Colombia).

Now Conopophaga castaneiceps chocoensis Chapman, 1915 . See Ridgely and Tudor, 1994: 395.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 123321 , adult male, collected in the Serranía de Baudó , 06°00′N, 77°05′W, 3500 ft, Chocó, Colombia, on 18 July 1912, by Elizabeth L. Kerr (no. 129).

Conopophaga rusbyi Allen

Conopophaga rusbyi Allen, 1889a: 96 (Reyes, Bolivia).

Now Conopophaga melanogaster Ménétriès, 1835 . See

Cory and Hellmayr, 1924: 28, Sibley and Monroe,

1990: 420, and Ridgely and Tudor, 1994: 400.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 30701 , sex?, collected at

Reyes, 14°19′S, 67°23′W, El Beni, Bolivia, in June

1886, by Dr. Henry H. Rusby.

COMMENTS: The holotype is in female plumage.

Myiothera calcarata Wied

Myiothera calcarata Wied, 1831: 1101 (no locality given). Now Corythopis delalandi (Lesson, 1830/31). See Cory and Hellmayr, 1924: 34, Sibley and Monroe, 1990: 338,

and Ridgely and Tudor, 1994: 541.

HOLOTYPE?: AMNH 6787 , adult male, collected in Brazil, by Maximilian , Prince of Wied. From the Maximilian Collection.

COMMENTS: This specimen is the specimen listed by Allen (1889b: 256) as the type of this taxon Allen continued: “Wied (l.c.) describes only the male, and says he has not had the female before him. Though both ‘Mas.’ and ‘Fem.’ are entered in the Catalogue, there is only one specimen in the collection.” However, there is a second specimen, AMNH 4808, said to be a Maximilian specimen but without his characteristic label. The sex symbol on this label is difficult to interpret. It was originally an upside-down female symbol, to which a male “arrow” has been added. Both of the specimens are dismounted and of the Maximilian “make.”

The specimen that Allen considered the type has had a piece cut out of the Maximilian label in exactly the spot where the female symbol would have been; the fact that Maximilian listed both male and female in the catalog makes it seem probable that both symbols were on the original label. If AMNH 4808 is in fact a female, it is probably the other member of the pair and has no standing as a type. There is a note to that effect on the type label, signed by C. K. N[ichols]. If both are in fact males, they may be syntypes. Both specimens are kept in the type collection.

When Part 4 of the AMNH type list (Greenway, 1987) was published, the fact that the genus Corythopis is now included in the Tyrannidae was overlooked. See Ames et al. ( 1968) and Lanyon (1988: 25–28).