Eudrepanis jefferyi Ogilvie-Grant, 1894

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 : 149

Eudrepanis jefferyi Ogilvie-Grant

Eudrepanis jefferyi Ogilvie-Grant, 1894a: 50 ([northern Luzon]).

Now Aethopyga pulcherrima jefferyi (Ogilvie- Grant, 1894). See Dickinson et al., 1991: 384, and Cheke and Mann, 2008a: 306.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 686607 , adult male, collected at La Trinidad, 16.28N, 120.35E (Dickinson, et al., 1991: 421), on 11 February 1894, by John Whitehead (no. 178) ; AMNH 686608 , female, collected at La Trinidad, on 16 February 1894, by John Whitehead (no. 209) ; AMNH 686611 , adult male, on 6 January 1894, by John Whitehead (no. 34) ; AMNH 686613 , juvenile female, on 16 February 1894, by John Whitehead (no. 214)—all collected in Benguet Subprovince , Luzon Island, Philippines .

COMMENTS: When jefferyi was described by Ogilvie-Grant, no type was designated and the number of specimens that he examined was not mentioned. Ogilvie-Grant (1894b: 501–522) reporting later on the entire collection, noted that the collection made between 1 January and 3 April 1894 had arrived in England on 15 June 1894. The postscript written by Bowdler Sharpe, which immediately preceded Ogilvie-Grant’s (1894a) descriptions of the new forms, was dated 23 June, thus demonstrating that all of the collection was in Ogilvie-Grant’s hands when the new forms were named.

In the report on the entire collection, Ogilvie-Grant (1894b: 513–514) again did not say how many specimens he had, but gave measurements for females and males. The syntypes listed above, all four collected in January and February 1894, had not previously been recognized as types at AMNH. There are syntypes in BMNH ( Warren and Harrison, 1971: 273–274), presented by the subscribers to Whitehead’s expedition. Rothschild purchased his specimens directly from Whitehead or from his family after his death.