Opetiorynchos turdinus Wied

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 109

Opetiorynchos turdinus Wied

Opetiorynchos turdinus Wied, 1821: 148 ( Brasilien).

Now Campylorhynchus turdinus turdinus ( Wied, 1821) . See Allen, 1889b: 213, Hellmayr, 1934: 132, and Brewer and MacKay, 2001: 99.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 4233, adult female, and AMNH 4234, adult male, collected in Brazil by Maximilian, Prince of Wied. From the Maximilian Collection.

COMMENTS: Wied (1831: 677) noted that he first collected this bird on the ‘‘ Rio Doçe’’.

Many specimens from the Maximilian Collection had been mounted as pairs and shared a single label bearing both male and female symbols. As noted by Allen (1889b: 213), the original label in this case is attached to the AMNH label of the male, and the end where the female symbol would have appeared has been cut off, probably when the birds were dismounted and labels made for each. These are the only two Maximilian specimens of this taxon in AMNH.