Erythrocichla bicolor whiteheadi Hartert

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 : 66-67

Erythrocichla bicolor whiteheadi Hartert

Erythrocichla bicolor whiteheadi Hartert, 1915c: 36 (‘‘Benkoker’’).

Now Trichastoma bicolor (Lesson, 1839) . See

Ripley and Beehler, 1985, and Smythies and Davison, 1999: 496–497.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 589091 , adult male, collected on the Bengkoka River (5 Benkoker), Sabah, Malaysia, on 11 October 1885, by John Whitehead (no. 389). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Whitehead’s field number of the holotype was cited in the original description. Whitehead (1893: 41–42) was on the Bengkoka River from 31 August–17 November 1885 and apparently never traveled far up the river. The coordinates at the mouth are ca. 068459N, 1178049E (D. Wells, in litt.).

Only the holotype was mentioned in the original description, but a second specimen, AMNH 589092, male, collected on the Bengkoka River on 22 October 1885 by Whitehead (no. 426), would have been available to Hartert and is a paratype.

Malacocincla sepiaria tardinata Hartert

Malacocincla sepiaria tardinata Hartert, 1915c: 35 (Gunong Tahan, 1000 feet).

Now Malacocincla sepiaria tardinata Hartert, 1915 . See Ripley and Beehler, 1985, and Dickinson, 2003: 600.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 588581 , adult male, collected on Gunong Tahan , 1000 ft, 048349N, 1028179E (Times Atlas), Pahang, Malaysia, in November 1901, by Johannes Waterstradt. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, the type was said to be a male from Gunong Tahan, collected by Waterstradt in November 1901. Hartert (1915c: 35) referred to his earlier ( Hartert 1902d: 563) report on Waterstradt’s collection, noting that he had ‘‘called attention to the differences, but at the same time enumerated the specimen from Gunong Tahan under M.a. olivacea ’’ (p. 562). In his earlier report, he did not say how many specimens he had from Gunong Tahan, but in fact two came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. The second specimen, AMNH 588579, adult female, collected on Gunong Tahan in December 1901 by Waterstradt, is a paratype.

Sibley and Monroe (1990: 630) spell this species Malacocincla sepiarium , but see David and Gosselin (2002a: 18) for a discussion of the spelling.