Dicrurus hottentottus morotensis Vaurie

Dicrurus hottentottus morotensis Vaurie, 1946: 82 (Morotai Island).

Now Dicrurus bracteatus morotensis Vaurie, 1946 . See Vaurie, 1949b: 282–283; 1962: 148–149; White and Bruce, 1986: 314–316; Dickinson, 2003: 493; and Rocamora and Yeatman-Berthelot, 2009: 216–217.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 672587, sex?, Morotai (Morty, as on label) Island, 02.20N, 128.25E (White and Bruce, 1986: 491), Moluccas, Indonesia, undated, collected by J.M. Dumas. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Vaurie cited the AMNH number of the holotype and noted that he had a second specimen. The paratype is: AMNH 672586, sex?, Morotai Island, undated, collected by Dumas. Dumas is known to have collected on Morotai in late 1898 (LeCroy and Jansen, 2011: 176–177).