Edolisoma morio pererratum 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 : 66

Edolisoma morio pererratum Hartert

Edolisoma morio pererratum Hartert, 1918a: 28 (Tomia Island).

Now Coracina tenuirostris pererrata (Hartert, 1918) . See White and Bruce, 1986: 305, Dickinson and Dekker, 2002a: 12, and Dickinson et al., 2002a: 37.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 562506 , collected on Tomea Island , 05°47′S, 123°55′E (Times Atlas), Tukangbesi Archipelago , Indonesia, on 23 December 1901, by Heinrich Kühn (no. 4408). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert gave Kühn’s field number of the type in the original description and said that he had 11 specimens from the Tukangbesi Archipelago. Of the 10 paratypes, only nine came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection ; they are AMNH 562507–562515 .

Hartert (1918a: 28) stated that he was convinced that the holotype was a female, even though Kühn had sexed it as a male. On the label he wrote: ‘‘errore! is ♀. E.H.’’ The name of the taxon reflects this supposed error in sexing. Later, he ( Hartert, 1922b: 374) published it as a male without comment. The specimen is in female plumage, with narrow barring (including the throat) on whitish underparts.

Hartert (1922b: 374) noted that the original description was published in January 1918 even though the printed date of publication is 29 December 1917.