Clytoctantes alixii Elliot, 1870: 242

LECROY, MARY & SLOSS, RICHARD, 2000, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 3. Passeriformes: Eurylaimidae, Dendrocolaptidae, Furnariidae, Formicariidae, Conopophagidae, And Rhinocryptidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2000 (257), pp. 1-88 : 41

Clytoctantes alixii Elliot, 1870: 242 , pl. 20 (Rio Napo).

Now Clytoctantes alixii Elliot, 1870 . See Sibley and Monroe, 1990: 382, and Ridgely and Tudor, 1994: 314.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 6832, adult male, AMNH 6833, imm. male, “ Equateur,” from the Verreaux Collection, nos. 2728 and 2729, respectively. Chapman (1926a: 386) referred only to the adult male as the type, but both specimens were described in the original description and both original labels are marked “(type).”

COMMENTS: Chapman (1926a: 386) called attention to the fact that Elliot reported in his description of this genus and species that it came from the Río Napo, when, in fact, the label says only “ Equateur.” The species has not subsequently been found in Ecuador; thus, this locality is probably an error.

There is in the Department of Ornithology a handwritten list of specimens acquired by Elliot for the AMNH from the Verreaux brothers, natural history dealers in Paris, in which these two specimens are given only the locality “ Equateur.”