Platyrynchos ruficollis Vieillot

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 : 475

Platyrynchos ruficollis Vieillot

Platyrynchos ruficollis Vieillot, 1818, Nouv. Dict. Nat. éd. 27: 13 (Nouvelle-Hollande).

Myiagra ruficollis (Vieillot, 1818). See Pucheran 1855: 360, Hellmayr 1916: 99 and Mathews 1921-1922: 54. - Now.

Type materials.

SYNTYPE: MNHN-ZO-2014-525 [MNHN A.C. 9349], 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 / Cvtte le Naturaliste / Exp. Baudin / an 11 / 9349 / Myiagra rufigula / (illegible) Vieill. / (V). Pedestal label: Myiagra ruficollis / (V.) / Exp. Baudin Timor

SYNTYPE: NMS_Z 1819.20.1.67., adult 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.

The information available for the NMS bird is Dufresne Ms 1818, 72: moucherolle à gorge rousse Timor. Old printed lable: Myiagra rufigula , Wallace / Timor. New label: Dufresne moucherolle a gorge rousses / de Timor / Mesurements wg 68 / tar 18 / Tail 66 Beak 12. Other side of new label: Reg. no 1819-20.1.67 / Myiagra ruficula / M. ruficollis / Timor.

Comments.

Vieillot did not specify how many specimens were present in the MNHN. The current MNHN specimen was the sole specimen in the MNHN until another arrived in 1844 with La Zélée from Dumont d’Urville’s Astrolabe expedition (1837-1840), donated by Hombron and Jacquinot. The type locality is erroneous (Nouvelle-Hollande), and therefore corrected and restricted to: West-Timor, near Kupang Bay (article 76a.2.A (ICZN 1999)). Vieillot named this species Myiagra ruficollis or ‘red-necked’ ( Jobling 2017).