Pachycephala examinata Hartert

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 43

Pachycephala examinata Hartert

Pachycephala examinata Hartert, 1898d: 14 (Buru) .

Now Pachycephala griseonota examinata Hartert, 1898 . See White and Bruce, 1986: 382, Dickinson, 2003: 478, and Boles, 2007: 427–428.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 658780 , adult male, collected at Kayeli , 03.23S, 127.06E (BirdLife International, 2001: 2604), Buru Island, Moluccas, Indonesia, in March 1897, by William Doherty. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description, nor was the number of specimens given; and no further information was given by Hartert (1900b: 236) either. Doherty collected nine specimens of examinata , all at Kayeli in March 1897, and Hartert’s (1920a: 446) list of types in the Rothschild Collection did not further distinguish the type. However, AMNH 658780 bears a Rothschild type label and ‘‘Type’’ has been written by Hartert on Doherty’s field label, indicating that it was his intent that this specimen be the type. In order to confirm Hartert’s intent, I hereby designate AMNH 658780 the lectotype of P. examinata . Paralectotypes are: AMNH 658781–658788, six males, one female, and one unsexed specimen, all collected by Doherty. Specimens collected by J.M. Dumas on Buru were not part of Hartert’s type series.

Mayr (1967: 35) considered examinata a subspecies of the broad species P. rufiventris ; whereas, White and Bruce (1986: 382), Dickinson (2003: 478), and Boles (2007: 427) considered it a subspecies of the allospecies griseonota in the superspecies rufiventris .