Pachycephala johni Hartert, 1903

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 johni Hartert

Pachycephala johni Hartert, 1903a: 12 (Obi Major) .

Now Pachycephala griseonota johni Hartert, 1903 . See White and Bruce, 1986: 382, Dickinson, 2003: 478, and Boles, 2007: 427–428.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 658809 , adult ‘‘female’’ (5 male, E.H[artert]), collected on Obi [Major] Island, 01.30S, 127.45E ( White and Bruce, 1986: 491), Moluccas, Indonesia, on 25 March 1902, by Johannes (5 John) Waterstradt (no. O.129). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert cited Waterstradt’s unique field number of the holotype. His type series comprised one specimen collected by Doherty and four collected by Waterstradt on Obi. The four paratypes are: Doherty, AMNH 658810 , male, September 1897 ; Waterstradt , AMNH 658811 , sexed as a male but noted on the label by E. M(ayr) as a female or juv. male, June 1902 ; AMNH 658812 , female, 28 April 1902 ; AMNH 658813 , female, 21 April 1902 .

Mayr (1967: 34) considered johni 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 .