Pachycephala melanura arthuri Hartert

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 : 21-22

Pachycephala melanura arthuri Hartert

Pachycephala melanura arthuri Hartert, 1906a: 299 (Wetter) .

Now Pachycephala macrorhyncha calliope Bonaparte, 1850 . See Galbraith, 1956: 202, Dickinson, 2003: 476, and Boles, 2007: 421.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 657408 , adult male, collected on Wetar (5 Wetter) Island, 07.48S, 126.18E ( White and Bruce, 1986: 491), Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, on 14 September 1902, by Heinrich Kühn (no. 5498). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert cited Kühn’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description. Earlier, in his report on Kühn’s complete Wetar collection, Hartert (1904a: 210), under Pachycephala calliope , listed six males and one female, giving Kühn’s field numbers for them. Four male and one female paratypes came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection: AMNH 657409 (Kühn no. 5497), AMNH 657410 (5500), AMNH 657411 (5499), AMNH 657412 (5634), and AMNH 657413 (5517). AMNH 295113 , male, collected by Kühn on Wetar , was purchased from the dealer W.F.H. Rosenberg by Leonard C. Sanford for AMNH ; it has no Kühn field number on the label, and so there is no way of knowing whether this is the potential fifth male paralectotype, specimen no. 5496 listed by Hartert.