Stachyris borneensis Sharpe

Mary, Croy, History, Bulletin Of The American Museum Of Natural, At, Central Park West, Street, Th, York, New & Ny, 2005, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 6. Passeriformes: Prunellidae, Turdidae, Orthonychidae, Timaliidae, Paradoxornithidae, Picathartidae, And Polioptilidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (292), pp. 1-132 : 82-84

Stachyris borneensis Sharpe

Stachyris borneensis Sharpe, 1887: 449 (Mountain of Kina Balu, in northern Borneo).

Now Stachyris nigriceps borneensis Sharpe, 1887 . See Smythies and Davison, 1999: 509.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 589706 , adult male, collected on Kinabalu , 068039N, 1168329E (Times Atlas), Sabah, Malaysia, on 25 March 1887, by John Whitehead (no. 1322). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Sharpe (1887: 449) published descriptions of new birds discovered by Whitehead on his 1887 trip to Kinabalu. In the case of Stachyris borneensis , he described only the male and gave a single set of measurements, but he did not give any further information. Usually Whitehead sent ahead to Sharpe two specimens of any form that he thought was new ( Whitehead, 1893: 185), often a male and a female if he had both. In this case, there is no information about what he sent. Nor did Sharpe (in Sharpe and Whitehead, 1889: 413) add further information concerning the type, although he listed four specimens collected in 1887, none of which is the male collected on 25 March.

Hartert (1920: 481) listed the male collected on 25 March 1887 as the type, thus designating it the lectotype. Whitehead’s field label bears, in addition to the number ‘‘1322’’ and ‘‘m’’, ‘‘Type’’ on one side and ‘‘descr’’ on the other. Whitehead’s printed label is noted on the reverse as ‘‘Type’’ with Bowdler Sharpe’s initials and the number ‘‘1322’’ repeated. It is possible that this specimen is, in fact, the holotype. Warren and Harrison (1971) do not list a type in BMNH for this taxon.

Two of the four 1887 specimens listed by Sharpe (in Sharpe and Whitehead, 1889: 413) are now in AMNH. Sharpe’s specimen ‘‘c’’ is AMNH 49922 , female, collected on 18 February, and received on exchange directly from John Whitehead in 1890 ; Sharpe’s specimen ‘‘e’’ is AMNH 589709 , female, collected on 20 March, and received with the Rothschild Collection. I do not think Sharpe had either of these specimens in hand, as he described only the male. The oth­ er two specimens in AMNH were collected in 1888 .

See Cibois et al. (2002) for recent molecular studies of this species.

Stachyris guttata swinhoei Rothschild Stachyris guttata swinhoei Rothschild, 1903: 8

(Mt. Wuchi, Hainan).

Now Stachyris striolata swinhoei Rothschild,

1903. See Cheng, 1987: 663, and MacKinnon

and Phillipps, 2000: 437.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 589771 , adult male, collected on Wu­Zhi Shan (5 Mt. Wuchi ), 188599N, 1098459E ( Times Atlas ), Hainan Island , Guangdong, China, on 28 March 1903, by Zensaku Katsumata (no. 187a). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The number ‘‘187a’’ of the holotype was given in the original description. All six specimens of this form collected by Katsumata were numbered 187, but the type specimen had the number ‘‘187a’’ added in ink on the original label, apparently by Rothschild to distinguish the holotype from the rest of the series. The five paratypes are AMNH 589772–589775 and 589779.

Stachyris leucotis goodsoni Hartert

Stachyris leucotis goodsoni Hartert, 1915b: 7 (Gunong Mulu) .

Now Stachyris leucotis obscurata Mayr, 1942 . See Mayr, 1942: 117, Smythies and Davison, 1999: 511.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 589832 , adult [male], collected on Gunong Mulu , 048029N, 1148549E (Times Atlas), Sarawak, Malaysia, in March 1898, by Johannes Waterstradt. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The above specimen bears the Rothschild type label and is the only one from Gunong Mulu that came to AMNH. It was not sexed on Waterstradt’s label but was published as a male by Hartert. A second specimen, AMNH 589833, a female collect­ ed in the Penrisen Hills on 9 July 1892 by A. Everett would have also been available to Hartert and is a paratype.

Hartert’s name goodsoni is preoccupied by Stachyridopsis ruficeps goodsoni Rothschild, 1903 , now in Stachyris . Mayr (1942: 117) provided obscurata as a nomen novum.

Cyanoderma melanothorax baliensis Hartert

Cyanoderma melanothorax baliensis Hartert, 1915a: 2 (Bali) .

Now Stachyris melanothorax baliensis (Hartert, 1915) . See Deignan, 1964b: 316, MacKinnon, 1988: 266, and Dickinson, 2003: 608.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 590633 , adult male, collected on Bali, 2000–3000 ft, Indonesia, in April 1896, by William Doherty. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, the male type was said to have been collected in April 1896, a date unique to the above specimen. The Rothschild type label had been incorrectly tied on a March specimen, and this error has now been corrected. Hartert listed five males and one female in his type series ; the five paratypes are: Doherty specimens, AMNH 590631 and 590632, males, collected in March 1896 on Bali ; and Stresemann specimens, AMNH 590634 , male from Gitgit , Bali, 2 February 1911 ; AMNH 590635 , male from Danau Bratan , 2500 ft, 19 January 1911 ; and AMNH 590636 , female from Gunung Bratan , 4000 ft, 22 January 1911 .

See Hartert (1896c) for a report on the Doherty collection from Bali and Stresemann (1913) for a report on his own collection from Bali.

Mixornis prillwitzi Hartert

Mixornis prillwitzi Hartert, 1901a: 32 (Kangean Islands) .

Now Macronous flavicollis prillwitzi (Hartert, 1901) . See Deignan, 1964b: 319, MacKinnon, 1988: 267, and Dickinson, 2003: 609.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 590445 , adult male, collected on Kangean Island , Kangean Islands , 068579S, 1158429E ( Seltzer, 1962: 905), Indonesia, in September 1901, by Ernst Prillwitz (no. 163). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description. Hartert (1902c: 436), in his report on Prillwitz’s collection from Kangean Island, designated Prillwitz’s specimen number 163 the lectotype and noted that it was illustrated on plate 13. Three additional males and seven females were collected by Prillwitz on Kangean Island in August and September 1901 and are paratypes: AMNH 590446–590455.

Mixornis everetti Hartert

Mixornis everetti Hartert, 1894: 472 (Bunguran) . Now Macronous gularis everetti ( Hartert, 1894) .

See Smythies and Davison, 1999: 507.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 590525 , adult male, collected on Great Natuna Island (5 Bunguran Island or Natuna Besar), 038559N, 1088149E ( Seltzer, 1962: 714), Natuna Islands, Kalimantan, Indonesia, on 14 October 1893, by Alfred Everett. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The description of Mixornis everetti was based on a type series of eight males and two females from Bunguran, but no type was designated. Hartert (1920: 480) designated as lectotype the unique male collected on 14 October 1893. Only eight of the nine paralectotypes came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection: AMNH 590526– 590533.

M. everetti is figured by Hartert (1902c: pl. 13).

Mixornis montana Sharpe

Mixornis montana Sharpe, 1887: 448 (Kina Balu). Now Macronous gularis montanus ( Sharpe,

1887). See Smythies and Davison, 1999: 507.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 590544 , adult female, undated, collected on Kinabalu , 068039N, 1168329E (Times Atlas), Sabah, Malaysia, by John Whitehead (no. 1347). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description, but only the female was described. Taxa named in Sharpe’s 1887 paper were based on specimens collected on Kinabalu by Whitehead in 1887. Sharpe (in Sharpe and Whitehead, 1889) published on the entire collection and noted that he had based his description on ‘‘an adult female’’. His specimen ‘‘d’’ is the only female listed as collected in 1887 (5 April), although the lists in this paper do not always include all of Whitehead’s specimens.

Whitehead reached Kinabalu in January 1887, staying for two and one­half months ( Sharpe and Whitehead, 1889: 65), and 5 April was the latest 1887 date I found listed by Sharpe and Whitehead. In an attempt to date AMNH 590544 , I checked the Whitehead numbers of several specimens collected on 5 April and found that these fell between 1319 and 1340, so it seems certain that AMNH 590544 was collected early in April 1887. This specimen does not bear a Whitehead printed label, but still has the small field tag with Whitehead’s no. 1347 and ‘‘f’’ (5 female). On the reverse is written ‘‘descr’’ and ‘‘Type’’ and on the front ‘‘montana’’. I consider it the holotype ; however, it cannot be definitely connected with Sharpe’s specimen ‘‘d’’ because it lacks an exact date. If other female specimens are found, then AMNH 590544 would be the lectotype. Hartert (1920: 480), in listing it as the type, distinguished it from any others by giving Whitehead’s number 1347 .