Agelaius xanthophthalmus Short, 1969

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 : 53-54

Agelaius xanthophthalmus Short

Agelaius xanthophthalmus Short, 1969: 1 (15 km north-northeast of Tingo María, 4 km north of the Tulumayo River, and about 2 km northwest of the village of Pumahuasi, elevation approximately 2150 feet, Depto. Huánuco, Perú).

Now Agelasticus xanthophthalmus ( Short, 1969) . See Johnson and Lanyon, 1999; Dickinson, 2003: 772; Eaton, 2006; Schulenberg et al., 2010: 628; and Fraga, 2011: 797.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 789778 , adult male, collected at 15 km north-northeast of Tingo María , 4 km north of the Tulumayo River, and ca. 2 km northwest of Pumahuasi, ca. 2150 ft, ca. 09.04S, 75.40W ( Stephens and Traylor, 1983), Huánuco, Peru, on 17 August 1968, by Lester L. Short (no. 2999).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. The type series comprised two specimens ; the second specimen, the paratype, is AMNH 789779 , female, collected on the same day at the type locality. In the original description, Short designated this bird an allotype of xanthophthalmus . According to the Code ( ICZN, 1999: 75), ‘‘The term ‘allotype’ may be used to indicate a specimen of opposite sex to the holotype ; an ‘allotype’ has no namebearing function.’’

In addition to Agelaius , this species has been included in the genera Chrysomus ( Dickinson, 2003: 772) and Agelasticus ( Fraga, 2011: 797) .