Mixornis cagayanensis Guillemard

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 : 84-85

Mixornis cagayanensis Guillemard

Mixornis cagayanensis Guillemard, 1885b: 419 (Cagayan Sulu).

Now Macronous gularis cagayanensis (Guillemard, 1885) . See Dickinson et al., 1991: 311.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 590551 , adult male, collected on Cagayan Sulu, 078009N, 1188289E (Times Atlas), Philippines, on 1 April 1883, by Francis Henry Hill Guillemard. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Guillemard noted that he had a male and an unsexed specimen from Cagayan Sulu, but he did not designate a type. Hartert (1920: 480) designated the male the lectotype (listed as ‘‘syntype’’ by Dickinson et al., 1991: 311). The paralectotype is AMNH 590552, ‘‘sex uncertain’’, Cagayan Sulu, 1 April 1883. A female specimen, AMNH 590550, labeled as collected by Guillemard (1885b: 413) at Abai, north Borneo, is not a paralectotype. This specimen is listed by Guillemard (1885b: 413) among birds collected on Bor­ neo, where he said: ‘‘It is just possible that this bird may have been wrongly labelled and that its correct locality is the island of Cagayan Sulu.’’ In his book, Guillemard (1889: 256–257) wrote of visiting the Abai River, but did not mention collecting any birds during his rather trying visit.

This form is pictured in Guillemard (1885b: pl. 25). Cagayan Sulu is described in detail by Guillemard (1889: 174–189).