Dicaeum talautense A.B. Meyer and Wiglesworth

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 : 115

Dicaeum talautense A.B. Meyer and Wiglesworth

Dicaeum talautense A.B. Meyer and Wiglesworth, 1895: 5 (Inseln Talaut: Karkellang).

Now Dicaeum celebicum talautense A.B. Meyer and Wiglesworth, 1895 . See White and Bruce, 1986: 411, Cheke and Mann, 2008b: 387–388.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 697912, male, AMNH 697913, juvenile, collected at Melumbuane (5 Meloemboeane, as on label), Karakelong (5 Karkellang) Island, 04.15N, 126.48E (USBGN, 1982), Talaud (5 Talaut) Islands, Indonesia, on 22 and 1 November 1894, respectively, by collectors for C.W. Cursham. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Meyer and Wiglesworth (1895: 5) did not designate a type, noting only that they had five specimens collected at Melumbuane on Karkellang Island, Talaut Islands, in November 1894, and giving the local name as ‘‘ Tete marundang.’’ Cursham’s name was not mentioned. Meyer and Wiglesworth (1898: 9) added the information that Charles W. Cursham, a merchant at Menado, north Sulawesi, had been ‘‘engaged by A.B. Meyer and the Hon. W. Rothschild’’ to collect in Minahassa and on small neighboring islands. They then noted that ‘‘in our work [ Meyer and Wiglesworth, 1895, 1896] specimens from this source are marked: ‘native collectors’ or ‘native hunters’ (‘nat. coll.’, ‘nat. hunt.’) and some of these skins have passed into other museums also.’’ The above two specimens are marked ‘‘Co-Typus’’ and have the local name ‘‘Teke maroedang’’ on the original label; they represent Rothschild’s share of the jointly supported collecting. The other three syntypes remained in SMTD, where one was lost in World War II ( Eck and Quaisser, 2004: 305). The AMNH specimens had not previously been included in the type collection and AMNH type labels have been added.