Pachysylvia aurantiifrons saturata Hellmayr

Pachysylvia aurantiifrons saturata Hellmayr, 1906: 12 (San Antonio, Cumaná).

Now Hylophilus aurantiifrons saturatus (Hellmayr, 1906) . See Hartert, 1920: 456; Hellmayr, 1935: 171; Dickinson, 2003: 485; and Brewer, 2010: 437.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 505278, female, collected at Rincón de San Antonio (5 San Antonio), ca. 10.16S, 63.43W (Paynter, 1982), Venezuela, on 18 March 1898, by Henry Caracciola (no. 978). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Contrary to various authors, including Hellmayr (1935: 171) himself, a holotype was designated in the original description, as a footnote on page 12. The number ‘‘978’’ was cited as a Rothschild Collection number, but Rothschild specimens were not cataloged; this number is Caracciolo’s field number. All of the data given match those on AMNH 505278, which bears a Rothschild type label and is the specimen listed by Hartert (1920: 456) as the type of saturatus. Rincón de San Antonio was not definitely located by Paynter (1982), but it is probably on the Sucre / Monagas border and southeast of Cumaná.

Hellmayr (1906: 12) said that he had 8 males and females from Caparo, collected in April and May (year?) and 14 specimens from the vicinity of Cumaná. The following paratypes in AMNH, from the Rothschild Collection and collected before 1906, are: Venezuela, Strait of Cumaná, Santa Ana Valley, AMNH 505279 (Caracciolo no. 290), AMNH 505280 (287), male, female ; 14 February; Campos Alegre Valley, AMNH 505281 (85), AMNH 505282 (51), male, female, 6–7 February ; La Tigrera, AMNH

505283 (424), AMNH 505284 (420), two females, 18 February; Quebrada Secca, AMNH 505285 (352), female, 16 February; Celci Puede, AMNH 505286 (1606), female, 5 May; Forest of los Palmales, AMNH 505287 (392), female, 17 February, all collected by H. Caracciolo in 1898. Trinidad, Caparo, AMNH 505292–505297, four males, two females, April–May 1902, all collected by E. Andre´.

See Phelps (1945: 339) for information on H. Caracciolo.