Motacilla flava simillima Hartert, 1905

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 42

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scientific name	Motacilla flava simillima Hartert
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Motacilla flava simillima Hartert View in CoL

Motacilla flava simillima Hartert, 1905a: 289 View in CoL (Kamtschatka... und überwintert in China, auf den Molukken und im malayischen Archipel).

Now Motacilla flava simillima Hartert, 1905 View in CoL . See Schod de and Mason, 1999: 735.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 570431 About AMNH , female [= adult male], collected on Jolo Island (= Sulu Island), Sulu Archipelago, Philippine Islands, on 1 May 1883, by Lt. R. ff. Powell. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description nor was there any indication of the number of specimens examined. Hartert (1919: 167) designated the above specimen the lectotype; it is the only specimen with these data that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Even though this specimen was never part of the Mathews Collection, it bears the yellow Mathews label indicating that it was figured in Mathews (1925 – 1927, pt. 3, p. 125 and pl. 557).

Lt. R. ff. Powell was aboard the Marchesa when the vessel stopped in the Sulu Islands. On 1 May 1883, the ship was anchored at Meimbun (= Maimbun, 05°56′N, 121°02′E [ Dickinson et al., 1991: 421]), on the south side of Jolo Island ( Guillemard, 1889). The lectotype is specimen ‘‘b’’ of Guillemard (1885a: 264).

Alström and Mild (2003: 269, 283–284) synonymized simillima with M. flava tschutsehensis .