Cyclorhis (sic) flavipectus, P.L.Sclater, 1858

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 : 34-35

Cyclorhis (sic) flavipectus trinitatis Allen

Cyclorhis (sic) flavipectus trinitatis Allen, 1889a: 131, 134, 135 (Island of Trinidad and Venezuelan coast region?).

Now Cyclarhis gujanensis flavipectus P.L. Sclater, 1859 . See Chapman, 1894: 26–27; and Hellmayr, 1935: 198–200.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 40154, AMNH 40155, unsexed, collected on Trinidad Island, Trinidad and Tobago, undated. From the George N. Lawrence Collection.

COMMENTS: Allen did not designate a type in the original description, saying only that he had examined 10 specimens from Trinidad. The above specimens seem to be the only specimens that were in AMNH at the time trinitatis was described, and they are marked ‘‘Type’’ in Allen’s hand and bear AMNH type labels. Allen (1889a: 130) borrowed widely for the specimens used in his study, and the other eight syntypes probably lie unrecognized in other museums.

Allen thought that the type locality of C. flavipectus was Santa Marta, Colombia, but Chapman (1894: 26–27) noted that the type of Sclater’s C. flavipectus was from Trinidad and that Allen’s trinitatis was a synonym. Zimmer (1942a: 15) noted that two ‘‘cotypes’’ of trinitatis were in AMNH.