Sylvia poicilotis Wied

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 : 40

[ 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 griseiventris Berlepsch