Dicaeum misoriense Salvadori, 1876

Johannessen, Lars Erik & Lifjeld, Jan T., 2022, Type specimens of birds in the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway, Zootaxa 5150 (4), pp. 451-486 : 470

Dicaeum misoriense Salvadori, 1876

Annali del Museo civico di Storia naturale di Genova, 1875 (7): 945 [printed March 1876].

Current name: Dicaeum geelvinkianum misoriense Salvadori, 1876 .

Syntype NHMO-BI-61856 [I019648]; Study skin; Ad. M; Odoardo Beccari (i), 09 May 1875; Indonesia: Korido (Misori) [Supiori Island, New Guinea]; 0.750° S 135.500° E; 16b.

Remarks: The original collector’s label is still attached ( Figure 6d ), showing that this is specimen i of the type series ( Salvadori 1881).

Of the 10 specimens mentioned in the original description ( Salvadori 1876a), one syntype (not two, as stated by LeCroy (2010)) is still in MSNG in Genoa (C.E. 11278; Arbocco et al. 1979), corresponding to specimen c in Salvadori (1881) (Enrico Borgo, pers. comm.). Two syntypes are in MRSN; MZUT Av3943 and MZUT Av3944 ( Aimassi et al. 2020), corresponding to specimens a and j, respectively. The date on the original label of the latter (specimen j) is ‘8.5.75’ (Giorgio Aimassi and Luca Ghiraldi, pers. comm.) while Salvadori (1881) reported it as 3 May 1875 (‘ 3 Maggio 1875 ’); this may, however, be just a misreading of either the ‘3’ as ‘8’, or vice versa. Three more specimens (698077–698079, corresponding to specimens e, g and d, respectively, of Salvadori (1881)) are in AMNH ( LeCroy 2010), having arrived there with the Rothschild collection from Tring ( Rothschild & Hartert 1903).

Figures

FIGURE 6. Labels of type specimens in the NHMO Bird Collection described by T. Salvadori. a) Ptilotis erythropleura NHMO-BI-86778 (collector’s label); b) Melanocharis chloroptera NHMO-BI-61863 (NHMO label); c) Zosterops novae guineae NHMO-BI-86649 (NHMO label); d) Dicaeum misoriense NHMO-BI-61856 (collector’s label).