Pitohui ferrugineus

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 59

Rhectes ferrugineus brevipennis Hartert

Rhectes ferrugineus brevipennis Hartert (in Rothschild and Hartert), 1896c: 534 (Aru Islands).

Now Pitohui ferrugineus brevipennis (Hartert, 1896) . See Dickinson, 2003: 490, Boles, 2007: 434–435, and Dumbacher et al., 2008.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 656472 , unsexed, collected at Manumbai (5 Wanoembai 5 Wannambai), 06.02S, 134.18E ( USBGN, 1982), Aru Islands , Papua Province, Indonesia, on 25 June 1896, by Herbert Cayley- Webster (no. 217). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description; later, Rothschild and Hartert (1903a: 97) listed Cayley-Webster specimen no. 217 as the type of brevipennis, thereby designating it the lectotype. The number of specimens in the type series was not mentioned. Only one additional Aru Island specimen collected prior to the publication of brevipennis came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection: paralectotype, AMNH 656471, unsexed, collected at Maikoor (Mikroor on label), Aru Islands, 10 July 1896, by Cayley-Webster. Hartert also accepted A.B. Meyer’s (1884: 285) prior mention of the shorter tail in Aru specimens; therefore, Meyer’s specimens would also be paralectotypes (ICZN, 1999: 76, Art. 72.4.1).

An account of the collector’s stay in the Maikoor area is found in Cayley-Webster (1898: 198–204).