Sylvia poicilotis Wied

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 40-41

[ Sylvia poicilotis Wied ]

AMNH 6762 bears a type label with the Wied name Sylvia poicilotis in what appears to be Allen’s hand, but he did not list this name in his ( Allen, 1889c) paper on the Maximilian types in AMNH. It is labeled ‘‘not a type, J.T.Z[immer].’’ It is apparent, both from the original Wied label pasted on the reverse of the AMNH label and from Wied (1831: 715) that his use of Sylvia poicilotis is intended as a new combination of Hylophilus poicilotis Temminck. When it was shown not to be that species, Nordmann (1835: 14) introduced the name Sylvia amaurocephalus , based on a Wied specimen in ZMB ( Hellmayr, 1935: 159). It is now considered a full species, Hylophilus amaurocephalus ( Nordmann, 1835) (see Willis, 1991, Raposo et al., 1998, and Dickinson, 2003: 485). AMNH 6762 had been placed in the general collection, but because it bears an AMNH type label, it has been returned to the type collection with a separate label noting that it is not a type.

Hylophilus thoracicus griseiventris Berlepsch and Hartert Hylophilus thoracicus griseiventris Berlepsch and Hartert, 1902: 11 (Suapure). Now Hylophilus thoracicus griseiventris Berlepsch and Hartert, 1902. See Hellmayr, 1935: 162–163; Zimmer, 1942a: 1; Blake, 1968: 130; Dickinson, 2003: 485; and Brewer, 2010: 435. HOLOTYPE: AMNH 505219, adult male, collected at Suapure, 07.14N, 65.10W ( Paynter, 1982), Bolivar, Venezuela, on 11 February 1899, by Samuel M. Klages. COMMENT: In the original description, Berlepsch and Hartert designated as holotype the male specimen collected by Klages and listed their additional specimens of griseiventris as a female collected by Klages at the same time and specimens (without numbers) collected by Whitely in British Guiana. They expressed doubt that a ‘‘Bogota’’ specimen in the Berlepsch Collection belonged with griseiventris and it is not considered a paratype. The only paratype in AMNH is: AMNH 505220, female, collected at Chaupe on the same date by Klages. In the original description, the date of collection was written ‘‘ 2.xi.1899,’’ but Hartert (1920: 456), when listing Rothschild types, wrote the date as ‘‘ 11.ii.1899.’’ Klages specimens were collected over a broad range of dates, but a spot check of his specimens showed that he generally wrote the month first. In the case of these two specimens, Klages wrote ‘‘ 11/2/1899 ’’ and the date was probably 2 November 1899.