Macronous ptilosus reclusus Hartert

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Macronous ptilosus reclusus Hartert

Macronous ptilosus reclusus Hartert, 1915c: 36 (Kina Balu, 1000 feet).

Now Macronous ptilosus reclusus Hartert, 1915 . See Mees, 1986: 127–130, and Smythies and Davison, 1999: 508.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 590574 , adult male, collected on Kinabalu , 068039N, 1168329E (Times Atlas), Sabah, Malaysia, on 17 January 1888, by John Whitehead (no. 1881). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert designated the male collected on 17 January 1888 as the type. Paratypes are: AMNH 590575 (Whitehead no. 1882), a female collected on the same date ; and AMNH 590576 (617), male, collected at Lawas , north Borneo, on 27 March 1886. AMNH 590577 , a male collected at Batu Sang, Borneo, in March 1892 by Charles Hose, may also be a paratype, but I have no information concerning when it came into Rothschild’s possession .

Hartert (1915c: 36) restricted the type locality of Timalia trichorrhos Temminck, 1836 (5 Macronous ptilosus trichorrhos ) to the lowlands of Sumatra and then gave the above name to the Borneo form. Mees (1986: 129) noted the possibility that trichorrhos should be used instead of reclusus, depending on where the type of trichorrhos came from— Sumatra or Borneo. Dekker (2003: 50) discussed this possibility and noted that if an ongoing search for Sumatran type material available to Temminck is not found, ‘‘then a Sumatran neotype will be selected to provide for nomenclatural stability’’.