Thamnophilus

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 : 37

[ Thamnophilus leucopygus Lawrence]

Lawrence (1866: 401) described this form, giving the locality as “ New Granada, line of the Panama R.R., Lion Hill station. Collected by Mr. J. McLeannan.” Salvin (1874: 316) noted that this is actually a specimen of Dryoscopus cubla , family Laniidae , from Africa, and continued: “In some exchanges I made with McLeannan, I sent him a number of African skins; doubtless this one was included by mistake in a collection forwarded to Mr. Lawrence from Panama, and thus misled the latter gentleman as to the origin of the specimen.”

The specimen, AMNH 47139, will be treated with the Laniidae .

Thamnophilus cristatus Wied Thamnophilus cristatus Wied, 1831: 1002 (im Sertong der

Provinz Bahiá in kleinen Gebüschen im Campo Geral). Now Sakesphorus cristatus (Wied, 1831) . See Ridgely and

Tudor, 1994: 224, and Sick, 1997: 535.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 6819 adult male, AMNH 6820 male [= female], AMNH 6821, immature female, collected by Maximilian, Prince of Wied. From the Maximilian Collection.

COMMENTS: Allen (1889b: 249) stated that “The original label, covering Nos. 6819 and 6820, reads as follows: ‘ Thamnophilus cristatus Wied. ( Lanius poecilurus Cuv. ; Turdus cristatus Lath. ?) f m. Brasilien, M.R.’” However, both of these specimens have an original Wied label. The one on AMNH 6819, the male (judging by plumage), has a male symbol on the original label and the corner cut off where the female symbol would have been. Howev- er, the adult female (judging by plumage), also has an original Wied label with “mas.” on one corner and the opposite corner cut off. Otherwise, the information is the same. The original label on AMNH 6821 reads “ Thamnophilus cristatus mihi, Femina juv.” and is a young bird molting into female plumage.

Paynter and Traylor (1991: 255) equated this locality with Serra Geral, 15°25′S, 42°48′W, on the Minas Gerais / Bahia border, Brazil.

Thamnophilus bernardi piurae Chapman

Thamnophilus bernardi piurae Chapman, 1923b: 3 (Samate, alt. 250 ft., Prov. Piura, Peru).

Now Sakesphorus bernardi piurae (Chapman, 1923) . See

Peters, 1951: 161.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 151584 , adult male, collected at Somate , 04°45′S, 80°33′W, on Río Chira, 250 ft, Piura, Peru, on 23 May 1919, by Harry Watkins.

Thamnophilus bernardi baroni

Hartert and Goodson

Thamnophilus bernardi baroni Hartert and Goodson, 1917b: 498 (Yonan River, 3000 ft., north-east of Trujillo).

Now Sakesphorus bernardi cajamarcae (Hellmayr, 1917) . See Hartert, 1922: 390, and Ridgely and Tudor, 1994: 223.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 489897 , adult male, collected on the Río Yonan , ca. 07°14′S, 79°09′W, 3000 ft, northeast of Trujillo, Cajamarca, Peru, on 15 June 1894, by Oscar T. Baron. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1922: 390) noted that T. b. cajamarcae has 2 months’ priority over baroni.

Myrmelastes luctuosus araguayae Hellmayr Myrmelastes luctuosus araguayae Hellmayr, 1908: 68

(Rio Araguaya).

Now Sakesphorus luctuosus araguayae (Hellmayr, 1908) .

See Pinto, 1978: 345.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 492477 , adult male, collected at Aruanã (= Leopoldina ), 05°21′S, 48°41′W, on the Rio Araguaia , 556 m, Goias, Brazil, in August 1906, by Gustave-Adolphe Baer (no. 2399). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hellmayr (1908: 14) quoted Baer as having spent the dry season of June through August 1906 at “ Leopoldina , village sur le Rio Araguaya, affluent du Tocantins, à 200 kilomètres, au nordouest de Goyaz,” an area with an Amazonian element in the avifauna.

Thamnophilus nigricristatus Lawrence Thamnophilus nigricristatus Lawrence, 1865b: 107 (line of Pan. R.R., Lion Hill Station).

Now Thamnophilus doliatus nigricristatus Lawrence,

1865. See Wetmore, 1972: 136.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 43381, adult male, and AMNH 43382, female (tail missing), collected near Lion Hill Station, old Panama Railroad, Atlantic slope, Isthmus of Panama, Panama, by Messrs. James McLeannan and John R. Galbraith. From the George N. Lawrence Collection.

COMMENTS: For a discussion of this locality, see Dendrornis nana .