Sylvia poicilotis Wied
Creators: name: LeCroy, Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Sylviidae
Sylvia
Sylvia poicilotis

description: [Sylvia poicilotis Wied]
AMNH 6762 bears a type label with the Wied name Sylvia poicilotis in what appears to be Allen’s hand, but he did not list this name in his (Allen, 1889c) paper on the Maximilian types in AMNH. It is labeled ‘‘not a type, J.T.Z[immer].’’ It is apparent, both from the original Wied label pasted on the reverse of the AMNH label and from Wied (1831: 715) that his use of Sylvia poicilotis is intended as a new combination of Hylophilus poicilotis Temminck. When it was shown not to be that species, Nordmann (1835: 14) introduced the name Sylvia amaurocephalus, based on a Wied specimen in ZMB (Hellmayr, 1935: 159). It is now considered a full species, Hylophilus amaurocephalus (Nordmann, 1835) (see Willis, 1991, Raposo et al., 1998, and Dickinson, 2003: 485). AMNH 6762 had been placed in the general collection, but because it bears an AMNH type label, it has been returned to the type collection with a separate label noting that it is not a type.Hylophilus thoracicus griseiventrisBerlepsch
and Hartert
Hylophilus thoracicus griseiventris Berlepsch and Hartert, 1902: 11 (Suapure).
Now Hylophilus thoracicus griseiventris Berlepsch and Hartert, 1902. See Hellmayr, 1935: 162–163; Zimmer, 1942a: 1; Blake, 1968: 130; Dickinson, 2003: 485; and Brewer, 2010: 435.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 505219, adult male, collected at Suapure, 07.14N, 65.10W (Paynter, 1982), Bolivar, Venezuela, on 11 February 1899, by Samuel M. Klages.
COMMENT: In the original description, Berlepsch and Hartert designated as holotype the male specimen collected by Klages and listed their additional specimens of griseiventris as a female collected by Klages at the same time and specimens (without numbers) collected by Whitely in British Guiana. They expressed doubt that a ‘‘Bogota’’ specimen in the Berlepsch Collection belonged with griseiventris and it is not considered a paratype. The only paratype in AMNH is: AMNH 505220, female, collected at Chaupe on the same date by Klages.
In the original description, the date of collection was written ‘‘ 2.xi.1899,’’ but Hartert (1920: 456), when listing Rothschild types, wrote the date as ‘‘ 11.ii.1899.’’ Klages specimens were collected over a broad range of dates, but a spot check of his specimens showed that he generally wrote the month first. In the case of these two specimens, Klages wrote ‘‘ 11/2/1899 ’’ and the date was probably 2 November 1899.
Hylophilus thoracicus griseiventris Berlepsch and Hartert, 1902: 11 (Suapure).
Now Hylophilus thoracicus griseiventris Berlepsch and Hartert, 1902. See Hellmayr, 1935: 162–163; Zimmer, 1942a: 1; Blake, 1968: 130; Dickinson, 2003: 485; and Brewer, 2010: 435.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 505219, adult male, collected at Suapure, 07.14N, 65.10W (Paynter, 1982), Bolivar, Venezuela, on 11 February 1899, by Samuel M. Klages.
COMMENT: In the original description, Berlepsch and Hartert designated as holotype the male specimen collected by Klages and listed their additional specimens of griseiventris as a female collected by Klages at the same time and specimens (without numbers) collected by Whitely in British Guiana. They expressed doubt that a ‘‘Bogota’’ specimen in the Berlepsch Collection belonged with griseiventris and it is not considered a paratype. The only paratype in AMNH is: AMNH 505220, female, collected at Chaupe on the same date by Klages.
In the original description, the date of collection was written ‘‘ 2.xi.1899,’’ but Hartert (1920: 456), when listing Rothschild types, wrote the date as ‘‘ 11.ii.1899.’’ Klages specimens were collected over a broad range of dates, but a spot check of his specimens showed that he generally wrote the month first. In the case of these two specimens, Klages wrote ‘‘ 11/2/1899 ’’ and the date was probably 2 November 1899.
description: Published as part of 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, pp. 1-155 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381) on pages 40-41, DOI: 10.1206/832.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4611863