Lalage karu keyensis Rothschild and 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 : 72

Lalage karu keyensis Rothschild and Hartert

Lalage karu keyensis Rothschild and Hartert, 1917: 17

(Tual, Little Key, Key Islands).

Now Lalage leucomela keyensis Rothschild and Hartert,

1917. See White and Bruce, 1986: 310, and Dickinson et al., 2002a: 41.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 564033 , adult female, collected at Tual , 05°38′S, 132°44′E (Times Atlas), Kai Kecil , Kai Islands , Moluccas, Indonesia, on 14 September 1897, by Heinrich Kühn (no. 67). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert (1917: 17) mentioned six specimens and that the type was collected on 14 September 1897. The holotype listed above is the only specimen collected on that date. The paratypes are AMNH 564034–564038.

Mees (1961a: 51) noted that Tual (Toeal) is on the smaller of two islands that make up Kai Kecil (Little Key) and that the entire island is sometimes referred to as Tual.