Muscicapa caesia Temminck, 1820

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 : 43

Muscicapa caesia Temminck

Muscicapa caesia Temminck, 1820 , pl. 17, fig. 1 ( Brésil). Now Thamnomanes caesius caesius (Temminck, 1820) .

See Ridgely and Tudor, 1994: 248.

SYNTYPE: AMNH 5320, adult male, collected in Brazil, by Maximilian, Prince of Wied. From the Maximilian Collection.

COMMENTS: Allen (1889b: 250) considered Wied to be the author of this name, but Cory and Hellmayr (1924: 129) explained that Temminck’s 1820 description was based on a male and a female collected by Wied. The specimen listed above is most likely one of the two that Temminck used and is the only one cataloged with the Maximilian Collection. The female has not been found.

Allen (1889b: 250) gave the collecting locality as “Province of Bahia,” although there is no locality on the label. Wied (1831: 829) stated that he first saw this species “am Flusse Iritiba, in den Waldungen von Villa Nova de Benevente [Espírito Santo],

später auch im Sertong der Province Bahia ” and referred to plate 17 in Temminck. Cory and Hellmayr (1924: 129) apparently accepted Allen’s locality of Bahia as a restriction of the type locality even though they cited Wied’s Espírito Santo locality. Because there is no locality on this specimen, it seems equally likely that it was collected in Espírito Santo, where it was first seen by Wied. Paynter and Traylor (1991: 19–20) equated Vila Nova do Benevente with the modern town of Anchieta, 20°48′S, 40°39′W, and the Rio Iritiba with the Rio Benevente (Paynter and Traylor, 1991: 71) which discharges near Anchieta. This agrees with Wied’s ( 1820 –21) map of his travels.

Myrmotherula obscura Zimmer Myrmotherula obscura Zimmer, 1932a: 2 (mouth of the

Río Curaray, eastern Ecuador).

Now Myrmotherula obscura Zimmer, 1932 . See Sibley and

Monroe, 1990: 384, and Ridgely and Tudor, 1994: 266.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 255755 , adult male, collected at the mouth of the Río Curaray , 02°22′S, 74°05′W, Loreto, Peru, on 26 October 1925, by Alfonso M. Olalla.

COMMENTS: The typescript of the Olalla itineraries in the Department of Ornithology contains, on p. 27, a translation of their report covering the peri- od 20 May 1925 to 21 March 1926. They crossed the border from Ecuador into Peru on 5 October, and reached the mouth of the Curaray on 14 October. “The temperature recorded from October 16, 1925 to March 21, 1926, was taken on the island between the confluence of the Napo and Curaray Rivers. The specimens collected in this locality were taken in daily explorations to the Curaray bank or to both margins of the Napo, the camp being situated on the Panduro Island, close to the Mouth of the Curaray.”

Myrmotherula kermiti Cherrie Myrmotherula kermiti Cherrie, 1916a: 184 (Barão Melgaço, Matto Grosso) .

Now Myrmotherula sclateri Snethlage, 1912 . See Cory and Hellmayr, 1924: 134, Zimmer, 1932a: 7, Parker and Remsen, 1987: 100, and Ridgely and Tudor, 1994: 268. HOLOTYPE: AMNH 127594 , female, collected at Barão de Melgaço , 11°51′S, 60°43′W, upper Rio Jiparaná, Rondônia, Brazil, on 6 March 1914, by Leo E. Miller (no. 2042).

COMMENTS: Discussion continues as to whether M. kermiti is a valid taxon (Ridgely and Tudor, 1994: 268). A note on the label of the type indicates that the culmen is smaller than that of M. sclateri .