Ptilotis erythropleura Salvadori, 1876

Johannessen, Lars Erik & Lifjeld, Jan T., 2022, Type specimens of birds in the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway, Zootaxa 5150 (4), pp. 451-486 : 466

Ptilotis erythropleura Salvadori, 1876

Annali del Museo civico di Storia naturale di Genova, 1875 (7): 949 [printed March 1876].

Current name: Ptiloprora erythropleura erythropleura (Salvadori, 1876)

Syntype NHMO-BI-86778 [I021017]; Study skin; F; Odoardo Beccari (g), 3 May 1875; Indonesia: Mte. Arfak (Mori 3500 p.) [Arfak Mountains]; 1.357° S 134.160° E ; 15a.

Remarks: The original collector’s label ( Figure 6a ) is still attached, showing that this is specimen g of the type series ( Salvadori 1881). The ‘p.’ in the locality name is an abbreviation for ‘piedi’, i.e. feet.

Arbocco et al. (1979) listed three syntypes in Genoa (C.E. 11455–11457), and according to Enrico Borgo at the MSNG (pers. comm.) these are specimens b, h and i, respectively, as listed by Salvadori (1881). The latter of these, specimen i, is not one of the syntypes; Salvadori (1881) stated that specimens a–h are the types, which is also in accordance with Salvadori (1876a) basing his description on eight individuals only. Another syntype (MZUT Av4127) is in MRSN 3 in Turin ( Aimassi et al. 2020); this corresponds to specimen e or f in Salvadori (1881), but its label does not indicate which of these it is (Luca Ghiraldi, pers. comm.).

3 The ornithological collection of the Zoological Museum of the Turin University (MZUT) has since the 1990s been hosted at the Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali (MRSN) in Turin, but the specimens in this collection have retained their MZUT inventory numbers ( Aimassi et al. 2020).

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FIGURE 6. Labels of type specimens in the NHMO Bird Collection described by T. Salvadori. a) Ptilotis erythropleura NHMO-BI-86778 (collector’s label); b) Melanocharis chloroptera NHMO-BI-61863 (NHMO label); c) Zosterops novae guineae NHMO-BI-86649 (NHMO label); d) Dicaeum misoriense NHMO-BI-61856 (collector’s label).