Lanius asturinus Lesson

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

Lanius asturinus Lesson

Lanius asturinus Lesson, 1830, Traité d’Orn. 5: 351 (terres Australes).

Sphecotheres viridis (Vieillot, 1816). See Quoy and Gaimard 1824: 103 and Lesson 1831: 351. - Now.

Type materials.

The five SYNTYPES are the same as Sphecotera viridis Vieillot.

Comments.

Lesson did not mention the number of specimens he examined or the collection. These were the only specimens in the MNHN until another one arrived via Maison Verreaux in 1830 (MNHN Laboratory, ZMO-GalOis 3). Other specimens which are not regarded as types are: NMW 52.648, which arrived in NMW in or before 1806; one in C. J. Temminck’s private collection, which could presently be in Naturalis ( Temminck 1803-04: 27, Temminck 1807: 50 and 204, no 320) and one specimen which could not be located in NMS (Dufresne Ms 1818: 16). The type locality is erroneous (terres Australes), and therefore corrected and restricted to: West-Timor, near Kupang Bay (article 76a.2.A (ICZN 1999)). Lesson named this species Lanius asturinus or 'goshawk like’ ( Jobling 2017).