Pachycephala melanura dammeriana 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 : 22

Pachycephala melanura dammeriana Hartert

Pachycephala melanura dammeriana Hartert, 1900a: 17 (Dammer Island in the Banda Sea).

Now Pachycephala macrorhyncha dammeriana Hartert, 1900 . See Dickinson, 2003: 476, and Boles, 2007: 421.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 657414 , adult male, collected at Wulur , 07.09S, 128.39E (Times Atlas), Damar (5 Dammer) Island, Moluccas, Indonesia, on 27 November 1898, by Heinrich Kühn (no. 1092). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert did not designate a type in the original description; later he ( Hartert, 1920a: 448) listed Kühn’s specimen number 1092 as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype. It bears a Rothschild type label and Kühn’s label, marked ‘‘Type.’’ In the original description, Hartert did not say how many specimens he had, only that he had a single female; Hartert (1906a: 299) gave measurements for five males. Six specimens came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, but four are marked as males and two as females. It is possible that Hartert considered one of the females to be an immature male, as its wing measurement, 90 mm, falls within those he gave for males ( Hartert, 1906a: 299). The second female is smaller and shows signs of immaturity. The five paratypes are: AMNH 657415–657419, collected on Damar by Kühn in November and December 1898.