Dicrurus ater harterti Stuart Baker

Dicrurus ater harterti Stuart Baker, 1918: 299 (Tai- Peh, Formosa).

Now Dicrurus macrocercus harterti Stuart Baker, 1918 . See Hartert, 1928: 191; Vaurie, 1949b: 241; 1962: 142; Dickinson, 2003: 491; and Rocamora and Yeatman-Berthelot, 2009: 222– 223.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 671951, adult male, collected at T’ai-pei (= Tai-Peh), 25.05N, 121.32E (Times Atlas), Taiwan (= Formosa), on 6 April 1896, by collectors for Alan Owston. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Stuart Baker designated the male collected on 6 April 1896 by Owston’s collectors and in the Rothschild Collection as the type of harterti; AMNH 671951 is the only specimen collected on that date. Stuart Baker did not enumerate his specimens but gave the range as ‘‘ Formosa. ’’ Owston specimens collected on Taiwan before the publication of the description would have been available to him. I therefore consider the following Taiwan specimens paratypes of harterti: Bankoro, AMNH 671922–671926, two males, three females, 15–23 April 1907 ; Kaisanko, AMNH 671927, male, 12 April 1896, Sanchifunniochi, AMNH 671936, male, 9 April 1896 ; Sankocho, AMNH 671937, 671938, two males, 20–29 May 1907 ; Sharaikisha, AMNH 671939, AMNH 671940, two males, 3–5 April 1907 ; Taipeh, AMNH 671941– 671950, 671952, 671953, nine males, two females, one sex?, 2–16 April 1896, 21 September–10 November 1896; Pankio near Taipeh, AMNH 671954, female, 23 September 1896 ; Fungshau near Takau, AMNH 671955, male, 14 October 1896. Other Owston specimens from Taiwan in AMNH were either undated or give no indication of when they came into Rothschild’s possession (including the syntypes of cathoeca, see above).