Polioptila nigriceps maior Hellmayr

Mary, Croy, History, Bulletin Of The American Museum Of Natural, At, Central Park West, Street, Th, York, New & Ny, 2005, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 6. Passeriformes: Prunellidae, Turdidae, Orthonychidae, Timaliidae, Paradoxornithidae, Picathartidae, And Polioptilidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (292), pp. 1-132 : 109-110

Polioptila nigriceps maior Hellmayr

Polioptila nigriceps maior Hellmayr, 1900: 538 (Sueccha, 3000 m., Peru).

Now Polioptila plumbea maior Hellmayr, 1900 . See Zimmer, 1942: 3–4, Sibley and Monroe, 1990: 566, and Dickinson, 2003: 644.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 502980 , adult male, collected at Succha (5 Sueccha), 9000 ft, 098509S, 778399W ( USBGN, 1989), Huamachuco, Peru, on 19 February 1895, by Oscar T. Baron. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hellmayr listed the type as a male in the Rothschild Collection, collected at Sueccha, ‘‘3000 m’’, Peru, on 19 February ‘‘1896’’ and gave measurements for two additional males. AMNH 502980 is the only Succha specimen that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, it bears a Rothschild type label, and the Rothschild Museum label is marked ‘‘Typus’’. My reading of the year the type was collected is 1895, although the ‘‘5’’ is not very clear and I can see how this might be interpreted as 1896. This taxon was omitted by Hartert in his lists of types in the Rothschild Collection.

Hellmayr (1900: 535) borrowed specimens from Rothschild and others for this study. The two additional males for which he gave measurements would be paratypes, but the four males now in AMNH, collected by Baron in 1894 and 1895, are not marked to indicate which, if any, Hellmayr studied, nor are they identifiable by measurements.

Baron made two collections in Peru. His 1894 collection was split, part of it acquired by Salvin and Godman and part by Rothschild; both parts were covered in a paper by Salvin (1895). Baron (1897) reported making a second collection (year not given), described his collecting localities for both collections, and said a second paper would follow ‘‘shortly’’. I have found no publication relating to the second collection. In Rothschild’s partial list of purchases (Archives, AMNH Dept. of Ornithology), he listed Baron’s ‘‘2nd collection’’ but unfortunately did not give the date. Altogether five specimens of Polioptila nigriceps came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. The four additional to the type are clearly labeled 1895, and I think that the entire collection was made in that year.

Ridgely and Tudor (1989: 102) noted morphological and vocal differences and suggested that maior may prove specifically distinct.

Sylvia leucogastra Wied

Sylvia leucogastra Wied, 1831: 710 (Sertong der

Provinz Bahia).

Now Polioptila plumbea atricapilla (Swainson,

1832). See Hellmayr, 1934: 495, and Ridgely

and Tudor, 1989: 101.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 4221, adult female, AMNH 4222, adult male, and AMNH 4223, immature male, collected in ‘‘Brasilia’’, by Maximilian, Prince of Wied. From the Maximilian Collection.

COMMENTS: Wied described male, female, and young male but did not designate a type or indicate how many specimens he examined.

All three specimens received with the Maximilian Collection were formerly mount­ ed; AMNH 4221 and 4222 shared a label on which both male and female are indicated, and plumages agree with the sex as reported by Allen (1889: 213). Allen also reported that the third specimen was a juvenile male, but this is no longer discernable on the original label, which has been pasted onto the back of the AMNH label.

Hellmayr (1934: 495) noted that Sylvia leucogastra Wied, 1831 , is preoccupied by Motacilla leucogastra Ledru, 1810 , now included in the genus Sylvia .

Polioptila gianensis facilis Zimmer Polioptila gianensis facilis Zimmer, 1942: 6 (So­

lano, Río Cassiquiare, Venezuela).

Now Polioptila gianensis facilis Zimmer, 1942 .

See Hilty, 2003: 704.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 433542 bis, adult male, collected at Solano , 028009N, 668579W ( Paynter, 1982: 190), Amazonas, Río Casiquiare, orilla izquierda (5 left bank), Venezuela, on 5 May 1929, by Ramón and Alfonso Olalla.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. Zimmer (1942: 7) listed two paratypes: AMNH 311254, female, Mt. Curycuryari, Rio Negro, Brazil, and AMNH 275038, female, Río Pescada, Mt. Duida, Venezuela.

Polioptila schistaceigula Hartert Polioptila schistaceigula Hartert, 1898a: 30

(Cachabi, North Ecuador, 500 feet).

Now Polioptila schistaceigula Hartert, 1898 . See

Ridgely and Greenfield, 2001: 689–690.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 502979 , adult male, collected at Cachabı´ , 500 ft, ca. 008589N, 788489W ( Paynter, 1993: 25), Esmeraldas, Ecuador, on 5 December 1896, by William F.H. Rosenberg (no. 143). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert described only the male but did not designate a type or say how many specimens he had. Later, he ( Hartert, 1898b: 479) reported on the collection as a whole, and there listed only the single male. It bears a Rothschild type label and Rosenberg’s label is marked ‘‘Type’’ on the reverse. No other specimen of this form came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Hartert failed to list this type in any of his lists of types in the Rothschild Collection.

Rosenberg (in Hartert, 1898b: 477) described Cachaví (5 Cachabı´) as a ‘‘small village situated on the river of that name, on the northwest coast of Ecuador’’.