Pericrocotus flammeus xanthogaster ( Raffles, 1822 )

Wilson, John-James, 2021, Birds from Sumatra given by Sir Stamford Raffles to Lord Stanley: links to names, types and drawings, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 141 (1), pp. 39-49 : 42

2141. Scarlet Minivet Pericrocotus flammeus xanthogaster ( Raffles, 1822)

Theȱ speciesȱ wasȱ listedȱ twiceȱ byȱ Rafflesȱ (1822),ȱ theȱ maleȱ asȱ ‘ Turdus flammeus - Muscicapa flammea, Gmel. [sic]’ and the female (described as a male) under a new name, Lanius xanthogaster . In 1825, Stanley used Muscicapa flammea ,ȱasȱinȱVigors’ȱcatalogueȱ(Rafflesȱ1830),ȱ andȱ‘Flammeousȱflycatcher’ȱtoȱlistȱaȱmaleȱspecimen.ȱAȱmaleȱdepictedȱamongȱtheȱpost- Fame drawings (NHD 47.31; Noltie 2009; Fig. 3) could therefore represent Stanley’s specimen. TheȱpopulationȱonȱSumatraȱisȱrecognisedȱsubspecificallyȱunderȱRaffles’ȱnameȱ‘ xanthogaster ’. Lack of a traceable specimen in NML, or a number in Moore’s stock books, suggests it was not part of the 1851 bequest.