Turdus Suerii 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

Turdus Suerii Vieillot

Turdus Suerii Vieillot, 1818, Nouv. Dict. Nat. éd. 20: 270 (Nouvelle-Hollande).

Lalage sueurii (Vieillot, 1818). See Mathews 1914: 104, Hellmayr 1916: 99-100 and Dickinson et al. 2002: 40. - Now.

Type materials.

SYNTYPE: MNHN-ZO-2012-683 [MNHN A.C. 9821], non-breeding 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: Australie / Exp. Baudin / Timor / 9821 / Lalage timoriensis / Turdus sueri / type Vieill. Pedestal label: Lalage timorensis (Mull) / T. sueurii Type (V.) / Exp. Baudin Timor.

SYNTYPE: MNHN-ZO-2012-674 [MNHN A.C. 9823], immature, 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. Baudin / Maugé / 9823 / an 11 / >Lalaga timorensis / Mull / L. leucopoea / Type et Vieill. Pedestal label: Lalage timorensis (Mull) / S. leucophaca Type (V.) / Exp. Baudin Timor.

Comments.

This species was only present in the MNHN, but Vieillot did not list the number of specimens. These specimens represent the only two listed in the registration book (drafted in roughly 1854) (MNHN Laboratory, ZMO-GalOis 3), as originating from Timor. Another specimen collected in the Philippines by Dussumier entered the collection in 1820. The syntypes also constitute the types of Sylvia leucophæa Vieillot 1817 (see below), making them objective synonyms. 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 commemorated Charles Alexandre Lesueur when naming this bird.