Ailuroedus buccoides oorti Rothschild and 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 : 79

Ailuroedus buccoides oorti Rothschild and Hartert

Ailuroedus buccoides oorti Rothschild and Hartert, 1913: 526 (Waigiu) .

Now Ailuroedus buccoides buccoides (Temminck, 1836) . See Hartert, 1919: 127; Mayr, 1962c: 173; Mees, 1964a: 126–128; Gilliard, 1969: 258–263; Dickinson, 2003: 426; and Frith and Frith, 2004: 228–233; 2009a: 393.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 679734 , female, collected on Waigeo (= Waigiu) Island, 00.12S, 131.00E ( Frith and Beehler, 1998: 571), Raja Ampat Islands, Papua Province, Indonesia, on 24 December 1902, by Johannes (= John) Waterstradt. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Rothschild and Hartert noted that the type was a ‘‘ ♀ ’’ collected on Waigeo on 24 December 1902 but did not explain why the sex was enclosed in quotation marks. Waterstradt had sexed the specimen as a female, without a question mark. AMNH 679734 is the only specimen with that date, and it bears a Rothschild type label. When Hartert (1919: 127) listed this specimen as the type, he called it a male without explanation. AMNH 679733, a male collected by Waterstradt on Waigeo on 2 January 1903 is considered a paratype. Other Rothschild specimens in AMNH are not labeled as having come from Waigeo.

Mees (1964a: 126–128) considered oorti a synonym of Ailuroedus buccoides buccoides , and most later authors have followed him.

Ailuroedus buccoides molestus Rothschild and