Chlorocharis squamiceps Hartert

Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348), pp. 1-193 : 35

Chlorocharis squamiceps Hartert

Chlorocharis squamiceps Hartert, 1896a: 70 (Bonthain Peak, Celebes).

Now Lophozosterops squamiceps squamiceps (Hartert, 1896) . See Mees, 1969: 185–186, and van Balen, 2008: 481–482.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 701459 , adult male, collected on Mount Lompobattang (5 Bonthain Peak), 6000 ft, 05.22S, 119.58E (Times Atlas), southern Sulawesi (5 Celebes) Island, Indonesia, in October 1895, by collectors for Alfred Everett. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert did not designate a type in the original description, only saying that he had a large series collected at 6000 ft and above. Hartert (1896c: 153) listed this new species again, when reporting on Everett’s entire collection, but did not give further details. J.M. Dumas, Everett’s assistant, and his helpers collected above the village of Tasoso, on the peak known as Buah Kraïing ( Hartert, 1896c: 149). Six specimens, three males and three females collected in October 1895, came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Hartert (1920: 437) later listed the type as a male, in the Rothschild Collection, an action that nevertheless did not distinguish among the three male specimens in that collection. However, Everett’s label on AMNH 701459 has ‘‘Type’’ written on it in Hartert’s hand, and it bears a Rothschild type label, indicating that this was the specimen Hartert intended as the type. It was cataloged as the type when the Rothschild Collection came to AMNH and has retained that status to the present. In order to confirm Hartert’s intent and to avoid possible confusion in interpreting the older literature, I hereby designate AMNH 701459 the lectotype of Chlorocharis squamiceps . Paralectotypes in AMNH are: males, AMNH 701457, 701458; females, AMNH 701460– 701462. AMNH 295145, female, from ‘‘Bonthain Peak,’’ 6000 ft, collected by Everett’s collectors in October 1895, was purchased by L.C. Sanford for the Department of Ornithology from the dealer W.F.H. Rosenberg. Because there is no indication that this specimen was among the ones studied by Hartert, I have not considered it a paralectotype. There are two additional possible paralectotypes in BMNH ( Mees, 1969: 186), but these were not listed as syntypes by Warren and Harrison (1971: 514) and they were perhaps purchased from a dealer. Benson (1999: 140) listed a ‘‘syntype’’ of C. squamiceps in UMZC, but no mention is made as to whether that specimen was obtained from Rothschild or from a dealer. It was also said to be from 5000 ft, whereas, Hartert (1896a: 70) said that all of his specimens were from 6000 ft and above. All of the six specimens of the type series now in AMNH are labeled 6000 feet by Everett on the original label.