Calornis kuehni 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 : 34

Calornis kuehni Hartert

Calornis kuehni Hartert 1904b: 220 (Roma) .

Now Aplonis minor minor (Bonaparte, 1850) . See Hartert, 1919: 136; Amadon, 1956: 20; 1962a: 82; White and Bruce, 1986: 389–390; Dickinson, 2003: 652; and Craig and Feare, 2009: 721.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 667505 , adult male, collected on Romang (= Roma ) Island, 07.35S, 127.26E ( White and Bruce, 1986: 491, Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, on 25 August 1902, by Heinrich Kühn (5824). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert gave Kühn’s field number of the holotype and listed his type series of two males and five females. Five paratypes came to AMNH: AMNH 667504, male (no Kühn no.), AMNH 667506–667509, four females, collected on Romang 25–26 August 1902, by Kühn (nos. 5823, 5825, and 5563, one without a Kühn no.). The sixth paratype, if found, is a female bearing Kühn’s no. 5538.