Pitohui dohertyi Rothschild and Hartert

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 57

Pitohui dohertyi Rothschild and Hartert

Pitohui dohertyi Rothschild and Hartert, 1903a: 95 (Ron) .

Now Pitohui kirhocephalus dohertyi Rothschild and Hartert, 1903 . See Dickinson, 2003: 490, and Boles, 2007: 433–434.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 656286 , adult male, collected on Roon (5 Ron ) Island, 02.24S, 134.32E ( Times Atlas ), Teluk Cenderawasih (5 Geelvink Bay ), Papua Province, Indonesia, in June 1897, by William Doherty (no. 969). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, the type was listed as Doherty specimen no. 769 from Ron Island, collected in June 1897. This was apparently a lapsus, as Hartert (1920a: 454) listed the type as no. 969, without comment. The above specimen is marked ‘‘ Type of P. dohertyi’’ on Doherty’s label and bears a Rothschild type label. It is the only Roon Island specimen of Doherty’s that has a number.

Rothschild and Hartert listed a type series of three males and two females collected in June 1897 and seven males and two females collected in July 1897. Seven of the males and two of the females collected by Doherty at that time on Roon came to AMNH, and it is not clear whether there is an error in the list of specimens or whether there were additional specimens that were not kept by Rothschild. The eight paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 656287 , AMNH 656288 , males, July ; AMNH 656289 , male, June ; AMNH 656290 , male, July ; AMNH 656291 , AMNH 656292 , males, June ; AMNH 656293 , AMNH 656294 , females, July .