Anabates leucophthalmus Wied, 1821: 141

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 : 31

Anabates leucophthalmus Wied, 1821: 141 (Rio da Cachoeira).

Now Automolus leucophthalmus leucophthalmus (Wied,

1821). See Pinto, 1978: 330.

SYNTYPES?: AMNH 5222, male, and AMNH 6808, female, collected on the Rio da Cachoeira, 14°48′S, 39°01′W, Bahia, Brazil, by Maximilian, Prince of Wied. From the Maximilian Collection.

COMMENTS: Allen (1889b: 246) considered both of the specimens to be types and noted the sex as indicated above. However, in the original description, only the male was described; a description of the female was added later (Wied, 1831: 1170). Neither specimen is sexed in the catalog. The original Wied label covered both specimens and has been attached to AMNH 6808, with the male symbol remaining. The wing length of AMNH 5222 is 90 mm and of AMNH 6808 is 96 mm. It is probably impossible to sex these birds now, because their measurements fall within the zone of overlap between males and females (Vaurie, 1980: 291). Therefore, we have considered them syntypes?.