Oriolus finschi Hartert, 1904

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 : 43

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/885.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4612236
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scientific name	Oriolus finschi Hartert
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Oriolus finschi Hartert

Oriolus finschi Hartert, 1904b: 219 (Wetter) .

Now Oriolus melanotis finschi Hartert, 1904 View in CoL . See Hartert, 1919: 133; Greenway, 1962: 123; Mees, 1965: 194; White and Bruce, 1986: 318; Dickinson et al., 2004a: 67; and Walther and Jones, 2008: 717.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 671111 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Wetar (= Wetter) Island, 07.48S, 126.18E ( White and Bruce, 1986: 491), Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, on 16 April 1901, by Heinrich Kühn (no. 5604A). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Hartert gave Kühn’s number of the holotype in the original description and listed five males and five females that he had collected. The following seven paratypes came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, all collected by Kühn on Wetar in 1902: AMNH 671112 About AMNH (Kühn no. 5601), AMNH 671113 About AMNH (5600), males, 29 September ; AMNH 671114 About AMNH (5599), male, 4 October, AMNH 671115 About AMNH (5603), female, 5 October ; AMNH 671116 About AMNH (–), AMNH 671117 About AMNH (5754), females, 22 October ; AMNH 671118 About AMNH (–), [male], 20 October. The two paratypes that did not come to AMNH were females without Kühn numbers .

Hartert (1919: 133) included finschi as a subspecies of O. striatus ; Greenway (1962: 123) and many other authors included it in viridifuscus . However, Mees (1965: 194) pointed out that O. melanotis Bonaparte, 1850 , predated Heine’s name and is the valid name for what had been called O. viridifuscus (Heine, 1859) . Authors since then have used O. melanotis for the species.