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).