Oriolus flavocinctus migrator Hartert

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 : 44

Oriolus flavocinctus migrator Hartert

Oriolus flavocinctus migrator Hartert, 1904b: 218 (Letti) .

Now Oriolus flavocinctus migrator Hartert, 1904 . See Hartert, 1919: 134; Greenway, 1962: 124; Mees, 1982: 159; White and Bruce, 1986: 319; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 598–600; Dickinson et al., 2004a: 67; and Walther and Jones, 2008: 718.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 671217 , adult male, collected on Leti Island , 08.12S, 127.41E ( White and Bruce, 1986: 490), Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, on 4 November 1902, by Heinrich Kühn (5907). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert gave Kühn’s number of the holotype in the original description and listed 33 specimens including the holotype, with collecting locality, dates, and Kühn’s numbers. The following paratypes came to AMNH: Romah, AMNH 295319 , 671203– 671210 (Kühn nos. 5101–5103, 5105, 5106, 5108, 5110, 5111, one with no number), six males, three females, 13–20 July 1902 ; Letti, AMNH 671218–671220 (Kühn nos. 5968, 6427, 6428), two males, one female, 10 November–27 December 1902 ; Moa, AMNH 671221–671226 (Kühn nos. 6141, 6144, 6219, 6253, 6254, 6280), two males, four females, 18– 30 November 1902. AMNH 295319 was among a large number of specimens purchased from the dealer W.F.H. Rosenberg by Leonard C. Sanford and given by him to AMNH in 1931. Probably many of the other paratypes were passed along to Rosenberg or other dealers by Rothschild for sale, but because they were examined by Hartert prior to his description of migrator, they too are part of his type series. Their whereabouts is not known .

Mees (1982: 159), White and Bruce (1986: 319), and Dickinson et al. (2004a: 67), among others, considered Oriolus flavocinctus monotypic; taxonomy here follows Schodde and Mason (1999: 598–600).