Dicrurus (bracteatus, Vieillot, 1816

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 57

Dicrurus (bracteatus ?) buruensis Hartert

Dicrurus (bracteatus ?) buruensis Hartert, 1919: 133 (‘‘Mt. Madang,’’ West Buru).

Now Dicrurus bracteatus buruensis Hartert, 1919 . See Vaurie, 1949b: 293–295; 1962: 150; White and Bruce, 1986: 314–317; Dickinson, 2003: 493; and Rocamora and Yeatman-Berthelot, 2009: 216–217.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 672596 , adult male, collected on Kapala Madang (= Mount Madang ), 03.15S, 126.09E ( USBGN, 1982), western Buru Island , Moluccas, Indonesia, on 6 March 1902, by Heinrich Kühn (no. 4712). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert gave Kühn’s field number of the holotype and discussed males and females, but did not list his specimens. By 1919, when this form was named, Hartert would have had in the Rothschild Collection specimens collected by Kühn, William Doherty and J.M. Dumas ( Hartert, 1900: 236) and Erwin Stresemann. Stresemann (1914b: 365) listed the form from Buru as Dicrurus atrocaeruleus amboinensis but did not further discuss it. I have considered the following specimens to be paratypes of buruensis: Fogi, AMNH 672594, 672595 (Kühn nos. 4899, 4898), males, 11 February 1902; Mount Madang, AMNH 672597 (4637), male, AMNH 672598 (4638), female, 23 and 18 March 1902; Kayeli, AMNH 672599–672602, two males, one female, one sex?, March 1897, collected by Doherty; Mount Mada, AMNH 672603, 672604, male, female, August 1898, collected by Dumas; Tifu, AMNH 672605, male, 9 January 1912, collected by Stresemann (1001); northeastern Buru, AMNH 672606, male, November 1897, collected by Doherty.