Basileuterus castaneiceps orientalis Chapman

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, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 12-13

Basileuterus castaneiceps orientalis Chapman

Basileuterus castaneiceps orientalis Chapman, 1924: 8 (upper slopes Mt. Sumaco, head of Rio Suno, eastern Ecuador).

Now Myiothlypis coronata orientalis ( Chapman, 1924) . See Hellmayr, 1935: 517–518; Chapman, 1926: 601; Lowery and Monroe, 1968: 65; Curson, 2010b: 789–790; and Lovette et al., 2010: 763, 766.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 183497 , adult male, collected on the upper slopes of Volcán Sumaco (5 Mount Sumaco ), 00.34S, 77.38W ( Paynter, 1993), head of Rio Sumo, Napo, eastern Ecuador, on 12 June 1924, by Olalla and Sons.

COMMENTS: Chapman cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and noted that he examined 7 males from the upper Sumaco , one male and one female from above Baeza, and four males from Baeza. Only six males were cataloged from the upper Sumaco ; the five paratypes are: AMNH 183493–183496 , 183500 , March and June 1924, by the Olallas. Of these, AMNH 183494 was exchanged to MCZ in July 1928, and AMNH 183500 was exchanged to ANSP in July 1928. The two paratypes from above Baeza are AMNH 176261 and 176262, both sexed as males, collected on 14 and 17 November 1922, by the Olallas. The four paratypes from Baeza are: AMNH 173844 , 176263–176265 , all males, collected in September and November 1922 .

Lovette et al. 2010: 763, 766) included the species coronata in the feminine genus Myiothlypis .