Hylophilus ruficeps Wied

LeCroy, Mary, 2012, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 10. Passeriformes: Emberizidae: Emberizinae, Catamblyrhynchinae, Cardinalinae, Thraupinae, And Tersininae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2012 (368), pp. 1-125 : 70

Hylophilus ruficeps Wied

Hylophilus ruficeps Wied, 1831: 725 (Prov. Bahiá und Cabo Frio).

Now Hemithraupis ruficapilla ruficapilla Vieillot, 1818 . See Allen, 1889b: 221, Hellmayr, 1936: 372, Zimmer, 1947a: 12, Storer, 1970: 273, and Dickinson, 2003: 814.

SYNTYPE: AMNH 4525, [male], probably collected at Cabo Frio, 22.53S, 42.01W ( Paynter and Traylor, 1991), Rio de Janeiro,

Brazil, undated, by Maximilian, Prince of Wied. From the Maximilian Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Wied described an adult and a young male, and said that he had seen them in the Province of Bahia and in the area of Cabo Frio but did not say where he collected his specimens. Allen (1889b: 221) gave the collecting locality of this specimen, with no original label, as Province of Bahia. Following Allen, Hellmayr (1915: 131– 133) had applied Wied’s name to the Bahian population without having examined the type himself. Zimmer (1947a: 12–13) discussed this type and showed that it belongs to the larger and darker-headed form from Rio de Janeiro and was likely to have come from Cabo Frio; then he ( Zimmer, 1947a: 13) chose the nomenclaturally less disruptive alternative in this situation, accepting the one known syntype of ruficeps as determining the application of the name and changing the type locality to Cabo Frio ‘‘to accord with the known range of the pertinent form.’’ This left the Bahia form without a name, which Zimmer supplied (see below).

This syntype had formerly been mounted.