Dicrurus hottentottus manumeten Stresemann

Dicrurus hottentottus manumeten Stresemann, 1914a: 148 (Manusela (Seran), 2000 f.).

Now Dicrurus bracteatus amboinensis G.R. Gray, 1860 . See Hartert, 1919: 132; Vaurie, 1949b: 292–293; 1962: 150; White and Bruce, 1986: 314–316; Dickinson, 2003: 493; and Rocamera and Yeatman-Berthelot, 2009: 216–217.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 672607, adult male, collected at Manusela, 2000 ft, 03.10S, 129.32E (BirdLife International, 2001: 2606), Seram (= Seran) Island, Moluccas, Indonesia, on 2 June 1911, by Erwin Stresemann (no. 739). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Stresemann gave his field number of the holotype and listed his specimens as a male and a female from Wahai, two males and three females from Manusela, and a male from Lisabata-Wahai, as well as three specimens collected by Stalker on Seram in 1909. The following paratypes are in AMNH: Manusela, AMNH 672608 (Stresemann no. 744), AMNH 672609 (742), females, 3 and 6 June 1911; Lisabata-Wahai, AMNH 672610 (930), male, 29 September 1911; Wahai, AMNH 672611 (1130), male, 27 July 1911, AMNH 672612 (543), female, 15 May 1911. One male and one female from Manusela and Stalker’s specimens did not come to AMNH .