Seleucides ignotus auripennis Schlüter

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 : 98

Seleucides ignotus auripennis Schlüter

Seleucides ignotus auripennis Schlüter, 1911: 2 (Umgebung von Dallmannshafen in Deutsch- Neuguinea).

Now Seleucidis melanoleucus auripennis Schlüter, 1911 . See Hartert, 1919: 130; 1930: 33; Mayr, 1962d: 189; Gilliard, 1969: 126–131; Coates, 1990: 461–464; Cracraft, 1992: 16; Frith and Beehler, 1998: 427–438; and Frith and Frith, 2009b: 485.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 677823 , adult male, collected near Wewak (= Dallmannshafen), 03.35S, 143.35E (PNG General Reference Map, 1984), East Sepik Province (formerly part of Deutsch-Neuguinea), Papua New Guinea, probably in 1910. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Schlüter noted that he had three adult male and one immature male specimens and that Hartert had purchased the type for the Rothschild Collection. He also included information from Hartert that there were two specimens in the Rothschild Collection that also belonged to his new subspecies: an adult male purchased by W. Doherty in 1897 on the Witriwai River , north coast of New Guinea at 139 ° longitude and a female collected by Doherty in 1896 at Takar on the north coast of New Guinea. According to Rothschild’s partial list of purchases (Archives, Department of Ornithology), he purchased two specimens of Seleucidis from Schlüter in January 1911. The second specimen is the immature male listed by Schlüter. Paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 677810 , female, Takar, collected in November 1896 by Doherty ; AMNH 677824 , immature male, Dallmannshafen , June 1910, ‘‘bought from Schlüter’’ (formerly mounted) ; AMNH 677827 , adult male, bought by Doherty on the Witriwai River (long. 139 °) in 1897. Schlüter was a dealer in natural history items in Halle ( Salle ) and sold specimens widely ( Gebhardt, 1964: 318). Frank Steinheimer (personal commun.) provided information that Schlüter was not officially associated with the Natural History Collections of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and that the two missing paratypes are not in that institution .