Coracina novaehollandiae kuehni Hartert

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 : 58

Coracina novaehollandiae kuehni Hartert

Coracina novaehollandiae kuehni Hartert, 1916b: 65 (Tual, Little Kei Islands) .

Now Coracina novaehollandiae melanops (Latham, 1802) . See White and Bruce, 1986: 300, Browning and Monroe, 1991: 386, Dickinson and Dekker, 2002a: 10, and Dickinson et al., 2002: 34.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 561799 , adult female, collected at Tual , 05°38′S, 132°44′E (Times Atlas), Kai Kecil, Kai Islands, Moluccas, Indonesia, on 1 October 1897, by Heinrich Kühn. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: This specimen was sexed as a female by Kühn and so described by Hartert (1916b: 65). Later, Hartert (1922b: 372) stated that this specimen was a male, not a female, but did not give reasons, and he also placed the female symbol in quotation marks on the Rothschild Collection label. This is, however, the holotype, as no other specimen was collected on 1 October 1897. There are 16 paratypes: Kai Islands, AMNH 561798, 561800–561804; Aru Islands, AMNH 561805–561809; Tiandu, Southeast Islands, AMNH 561810–561811; Taam Island, Southeast Islands, AMNH 561812–561813; Sula Besi, AMNH 561796. Specimens are from the months of January, February, April, May, July, August, September, and October, and all appear to be of migrant melanops .

According to Mees (1961a: 51) Tual (= Toeal) is on the smaller of the two islands that make up Little Kei (= Kai Kecil), and the entire island is sometimes called by that name.