Aglaectis aliciae Salvin, 1896

1896 Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 5(33): 24.

Now Aglaeactis aliciae Salvin, 1896 .

Syntype: MHNG 865.084: adult male, collected in Peru ( Succha) on 22 March 1895 by O. F. Baron. From the A. Vaucher collection, acquired by the MHNG in 1941.

Comment: Vaucher’s label indicated “ex. Coll. O.F. Baron”, so it was presumably part of the type series. Salvin wrote (p. 25) “[Baron] obtained several specimens of both sexes, some of which he sent to Mr. Godman and others to Mr. Rothschild ”, but he did not specify which birds he examined himself. The NHM has several syntypes (Warren, 1966: 11).