Cossypha giffardi Hartert

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Cossypha giffardi Hartert

Cossypha giffardi Hartert, 1899b:5 (Gambaga, Gold Coast Hinterland).

Now Cossypha albicapillus giffardi Hartert, 1899 . See Keith et al., 1992: 439.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 580800 , adult male, collected at Gambaga , 108319N, 008229W (Times Atlas), Ghana, on 29 August 1898, by Captain W. Giffard. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The sexes were said to be alike, and no type was designated in the original description. Later, Hartert (1920: 473) designated the male as lectotype. AMNH 580801, a female collected at Gambaga on 4 January 1899 by Giffard, is a paralectotype.

Corrigenda 3:l, provided by Dickinson with reference to Dickinson (2003: 678), indicated that the species name should be spelled albicapillus , as in the original description of Turdus atricapillus , because atricapillus is invariable (fide Normand David).

Copsychus adamsi Elliot Copsychus adamsi Elliot, 1890: 348 (Sandakan) . Now Copsychus saularis adamsi Elliot, 1890 . See

Ripley, 1964: 67, Mees, 1986: 109–119, and

Smythies and Davison, 1999: 478–479.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 49677, adult male, 11 May 1887, and AMNH 49678, adult female (field no. 38), 12 May 1887, collected at Sandakan, 058529N, 1188049E (Times Atlas), Sabah, Malaysia, by C.F. Adams. Presented to AMNH by C.F. Adams.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Elliot gave the AMNH numbers of the syntypes.

Chasen and Boden Kloss (1930: 84) listed Copsychus adamsi as a synonym of Copsychus saularis niger Wardlaw Ramsay. Later , when Delacour (in Delacour and Mayr, 1945: 112) synonymized Kittacincla with Copsychus , Copsychus niger Wardlaw Ramsay, 1886 , was found to be preoccupied by Kittacincla nigra Sharpe, 1877 (5 Copsychus niger ). Delacour provided Copsychus saularis ater as a nomen novum, apparently unaware of Elliot’s earlier available name.

Sibley and Monroe (1990: 536) treated the genus Copsychus in the tribe Saxicolini , subfamily Muscicapinae ; Dickinson (2003: 680) placed it in the subfamily Saxicolinae , family Muscicapidae .

Copsychus albospecularis winterbottomi Farkas

Copsychus albospecularis winterbottomi Farkas, 1972: 228 (Ivohibe, south­east Madagascar (Préfecture de Fianarantsoa )).

Now Copsychus albospecularis winterbottomi Farkas, 1972 . See below.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 413893 , adult female, collected at Ankerana , three hours north of Ivohibe, 228289S, 468539E (Times Atlas), Madagascar, on 7 August 1929, by Austin L. Rand (no. 4762). From the Mission Zoologique Franco­Anglo­Américaine à Madagascar.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. In addition to the holotype, only one other adult male was mentioned ; however, there are two additional males that would have been available to Farkas when working in the AMNH collection. The paratypes are AMNH 413932 , an adult male, and AMNH 413930 and 413931, slightly immature males, collected at Ivohibe by the same collectors .

Farkas (1972: 229) mentioned the possibility that this subspecies intergraded ‘‘to the west with pica and to the east with inexpectatus ’’ but noted that sufficient comparative material was not available. Other recent authors have either not been aware of this subspecies or have considered it a synonym of one or the other without comment. Morris and Hawkins (1998: 260) referred to it as a ‘‘putative’’ subspecies. Dickinson (2003: 680) noted that inexpectatus was ‘‘thought to include winterbottomi ’’. Obviously, the status of this subspecies needs reevaluation.

Rand (1936: 167) gave details of the collecting locality, noting that Ivohibe was the expedition headquarters and that he collected alone at Ankerana from 4 to 28 August.

Kittacincla macrurus omissa Hartert Kittacincla macrurus omissa Hartert, 1902d: 572

(Lawang, East Java).

Now Copsychus malabaricus omissus (Hartert,

1902). See Ripley, 1964: 71, and MacKinnon,

1988: 274.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 580367 , adult male, collected at Lawang , 078499S, 1128429E ( USBGN, 1982b), eastern Java, Indonesia, on 1 November 1886, by John Whitehead (no. 893). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, the type was said to be a male from Lawang, and measurements were given for a male and a female. AMNH 580368, adult female collected at Lawang on 29 October 1886 by Whitehead, is the paratype.

Cittocincla nigrorum Ogilvie­Grant Cittocincla nigrorum Ogilvie­Grant, 1896a: 547

(Negros).

Now Copsychus luzoniensis superciliaris (Bourns

and Worcester, 1894). See Dickinson et al.,

1991: 316.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 580284 , adult female, collected on 1 May 1896, by John Whitehead (no. B.491) ; AMNH 580285 , male immature, collected on 3 May 1896, by John Whitehead (no. B.501) ; and AMNH 580286 , adult male, collected on 3 May 1896, by John Whitehead (no. B.500), all collected on Canlaon Vol­ cano, 108259N, 1238089E ( Dickinson et al., 1991: 417), Negros I., Philippines. From the Rothschild Collection .

COMMENTS: Ogilvie­Grant did not designate a type or indicate how many specimens Whitehead collected, although he described both male and female. Hartert (1920: 473) mentioned that the Rothschild Collection held the ‘‘type of the female’’ (so labeled by the author) but not that of the male. As this does not serve to designate a lectotype, all three specimens listed above are syntypes. There are also a male and a female syntype in the BMNH ( Warren and Harrison, 1971: 385).