Amblycercus holosericeus flavirostris Chapman, 1915

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 : 45-46

Amblycercus holosericeus flavirostris Chapman

Amblycercus holosericeus flavirostris Chapman, 1915: 659 (Barbacoas, Nariño, Colombia).

Now Amblycercus holosericeus flavirostris Chapman, 1915 . See Chapman, 1917b; Hellmayr, 1937: 43–44; Blake, 1968: 148; AOU, 1998: 656; Dickinson, 2003: 769; and Fraga, 2011: 747.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 118354 , adult female, collected at Barbacoas , sea level, 01.21N, 78.09W ( Paynter, 1997), Nariño, Colombia, on 13 August 1912, by W.B. Richardson.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Chapman cited the AMNH number of the holotype and listed the specimens he had measured. There are also a few additional specimens in the same series that would have been accessible to Chapman but may not have been measured. These are also included as paratypes, as is a specimen from Guineo, Rio Calima, Colombia, recorded by Hellmayr (1911: 1122) and included in flavirostris by Chapman. Paratypes in AMNH: Colombia, ‘‘ Bogotá,’’ AMNH 41929, 41930, sex?, undated, from the G.N. Lawrence Collection; El Piñon, AMNH 123122, female, 6 April 1913, by Chapman et al.; Rio Toche´, AMNH 113198, female, 26 October 1911, by Allen and Miller; Los Tambos, AMNH 71624, male, 18 August 1898, by J.H. Batty; Alto Bonito, AMNH 134540, female, 17 February 1915, by Miller and Boyle. Ecuador, Esmeraldas, AMNH 119044–119046, males, AMNH 119047, 119048, females, 21 October–8 November 1912, by Richardson; Naranjo, AMNH 125220–125222, one male, two females, 8–11 May 1913, by Richardson; Santa Rosa, AMNH 130542, 130543, two females, 8–11 September 1913, by Richardson; Guayaquil, AMNH 130544, male, 15 August 1913, by Richardson. AMNH 119044 was exchanged to ANSP in 1928, and AMNH 119046 was exchanged to MCZ in 1928.

The affiliation of this species with the Icteridae is uncertain and more than one species may be involved (See AOU, 1998: 656, and Fraga, 2011: 747).