Dicrurus suluensis Hartert

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 59

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/885.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4630186
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scientific name	Dicrurus suluensis Hartert
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Dicrurus suluensis Hartert, 1902d: 441 (Maimbun, Sulu).

Now Dicrurus hottentottus suluensis Hartert, 1902 View in CoL . See Hartert, 1919: 132; Vaurie, 1949b: 305; 1962: 152; Dickinson et al., 1991: 291–292; Smythies, 2000: 620–621; Dickinson, 2003: 492– 493; and Rocamora and Yeatman-Berthelot, 2009: 213–214.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 672260 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Maimbun , 05.56N, 121.02E ( Dickinson et al., 1991: 421), Sulu Island, Sulu Archipelago, Philippine Islands, on 23 April 1883, by F.H.H. Guillemard. From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert provided unique data for the holotype of suluensis and measurements for more than one specimen. Guillemard (1885a: 259), reporting on his Sulu collection, listed three males, two females and one sex? from Sulu Island. Three males, and two with sex unrecorded came to AMNH with the Roth schild Collection. The paratypes in AMNH are: Maimbun , AMNH 672261 About AMNH , male, 21 April 1883, AMNH 672262 About AMNH , male, April 1883 ; Sulu Island , AMNH 672263 About AMNH , 672264 About AMNH , sex?, April 1883 .

Guillemard (1889: 198–200) recounted his bird-collecting activities during his first stay at Maimbun (spelled Meimbun in the book) during which these specimens were collected.