Oryzoborus angolensis brevirostris Berlepsch

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 : 32-33

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/775.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5470356
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scientific name	Oryzoborus angolensis brevirostris Berlepsch
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Oryzoborus angolensis brevirostris Berlepsch, 1908: 119 (Cayenne) .

Now Oryzoborus angolensis angolensis (Linnaeus, 1766) View in CoL . See Hartert, 1919: 154, Hellmayr, 1938: 246–247, Olson, 1981a, Dickinson, 2003: 793, and Ridgely and Tudor, 2009: 634.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 514185 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Cayenne , French Guiana, on 22 November 1902, by George K. Cherrie and Benjamin T. Gault. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Berlepsch designated as type the male specimen collected at Cayenne on 22 November 1902, and bearing Cherrie’s number 862. Unfortunately, Cherrie’s number is blotted, but doesn’t appear to have been 862. However, the specimen is the only one collected on 22 November 1902 and is the holotype. It bears a Rothschild type label on which Hartert has written ‘‘862,’’ but when this was listed by Hartert (1919: 154) in his list of types in the Rothschild Collection, it was misprinted ‘‘882,’’ as was the page number (not 115) on which Berlepsch’s description appeared.

In the original description, Berlepsch also listed the ten specimens he examined, giving the Cherrie field numbers. Seven of the nine paratypes came to AMNH: Cayenne, AMNH 514186 About AMNH (Cherrie no. 948), male, 27 November ; AMNH 514187 About AMNH (885), male, 24 November ; Roche-Marie, AMNH 514188 About AMNH (537), male, 5 November ; AMNH 514189 About AMNH (675), male, 10 November ; AMNH 514190 About AMNH (706), immature male, 11 November ; AMNH 514191 About AMNH (720), male, 12 November ; and AMNH 514192 About AMNH (749), female, 13 November, all collected in 1902. Of these, I was unable to find AMNH 514186 in the collection. Cherrie’s numbers of the paratypes that did not come to AMNH are 632 and 795 .

Hellmayr (1938: 247) synonymized brevirostris with O. a. torridus. Olson (1981a) synonymized torridus with nominate angolensis , and most recent authors have followed him; his merging the genus Oryzoborus with Sporophila has not been widely followed, but see Lijtmaer et al. (2004). Ridgely and Tudor (2009: 634) considered O. angolensis monotypic.