Cuculus tenuirostris 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 : 470

Cuculus tenuirostris Lesson

Cuculus tenuirostris Lesson, 1830, Traité d’Orn. 3: 146-147 (Bengale and Timor).

Cuculus saturatus (Blyth, 1843). - Now.

Type materials.

‘type’ (lost): Relevant line in the type description: Coucou tenuirostre; Cuculus tenuirostris , Mus. de Paris. Variété de Timor. Habite le Bengale (Duvaucel) et Timor ( Maugé).

Comments.

In the registration book drafted around 1854 (MNHN Laboratory, ZMO-GalOis 1) two birds were noted, one collected in 1822 in Bengale and one from the same location from Duvaucel from 1823. So clearly the specimen from Maugé left the MNHN before 1854. Lesson named this species Cuculus tenuirostris or 'Slender billed’ ( Jobling 2017). A solution for this special case, should be found in the future (e.g. type-specimen and type-locality).