Pheugopedius sunensis Chapman

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 114

Pheugopedius sunensis Chapman

Pheugopedius sunensis Chapman, 1925b: 10 (Rio Suno, above Avila, Tropical Zone, eastern Ecuador).

Now Thryothorus coraya griseipectus Sharpe, 1881 . See Hellmayr, 1934: 194, and Brewer and MacKay, 2001: 143.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 179643 , adult male, collected on the Río Suno , above Avila , 00°38′S, 77°25′W ( Paynter, 1993: 12), Napo, Ecuador, on 17 February 1923, by Carlos, Alfonso, and Ramón Olalla.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the type was cited in the original description. Paratypes are AMNH 179642, 179644, 179645, 183670– 183677, 183683–183686, 183831, and 183832. Of these paratypes, AMNH 183670 and 183675 were exchanged to MCZ and AMNH 183673 and 183831 to ANSP.

The Olallas reached the town of Avila on the 28 January 1923, and the next day, after a 3­ hour march, they reached the Río Suno, between the towns of San José Nuevo and Avila. They collected there until 8 March (Department of Ornithology Archives, AMNH).