Psittacula batavensis Wagler, 1832

Jansen, Justin J. F. J., 2017, Rene Mauge's ornithological collections from Kupang Bay, West-Timor, Indonesia, August-November 1801, with special regard to type-specimens, Zoosystematics and Evolution 93 (2), pp. 467-492 : 474

Psittacula batavensis Wagler

Psittacula batavensis Wagler, 1832, Monographia Psittacorum: 624 (Java, Nova Hollandia australi).

Geoffroyus geoffroyi (Bechstein, 1811). See Voisin and Voisin 2008: 481. - Now

Type materials.

SYNTYPE: MNHN-ZO-MO-2004-93 [MNHN A.C. 1481], male, near Kupang Bay, Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, West-Timor (10°11'0"S; 123°35'0"E), between 22 August and 13 November 1801, by René Maugé.

Pedestal underside: Timor / Exp. Cap. Baudin / 1481 / ♂ / Geoffroyus batavensis / Wagl. / Type (added with pen: Geoffroyus geoffroyi Geoffroyus geoffroyi / (Bechstein)). Pedestal label: Geoffroyus batavensis / ♂ / (Wagl.) Exp. Baudin Timor.

SYNTYPE: MNHN-ZO-MO-2004-102 [MNHN A.C. 1482], adult female, near Kupang Bay, Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, West-Timor (10°11'0"S; 123°35'0"E), between 22 August and 13 November 1801, by René Maugé.

Pedestal underside: Timor / Cap. Baudin / an XI / nº 3 / 1482 / ♀ / Geoffroyus bataviensis / Wagl. / Type. Pedestal label: Geoffroyus batavensis / ♀ / (Wagl.) Exp. Baudin Timor.

Comments.

These two syntypes were the only two specimens in the MNHN until a specimen arrived with La Zélée from Dumont d’Urville’s Astrolabe expedition (1837-1840), donated by Hombron and Jacquinot (MNHN Laboratory, ZMO-GalOis 1). Wagler did not mention the number of specimens examined, only that they were present in MNHN. Other Baudin expedition specimens (not examined by Wagler) is one bird in C.J. Temminck’s private collection ( Temminck 1807: 33, no 1060) and two birds that arrived in 1815 in NMW (NMW 50.150 and NMW 50.149). The type localities are erroneous (Java and Nova Hollandia australi), and therefore corrected and restricted to: West-Timor, near Kupang Bay (article 76a.2.A (ICZN 1999)). Wagler named this species Geoffroyus batavensis or 'from Batavia’ ( Jobling 2017).