Pachycephala nudigula Hartert, 1897

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 : 38-39

Pachycephala nudigula Hartert

Pachycephala nudigula Hartert, 1897c: 171 ( Flores meridionalis).

Now Pachycephala nudigula nudigula Hartert, 1897 . See White and Bruce, 1986: 381, and Boles, 2007: 417–418.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 659487 , adult male, collected on south Flores, above 3000 ft, Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, in October 1896, by a native collector for Alfred Everett. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description, but male and female were both described. Hartert (1897e: 522– 523, pl. 3) repeated his initial Latin description in English and added a description of the young male, but still did not designate a type or say how many specimens he examined. Later, he ( Hartert, 1920a: 445) listed as type the only male collected ‘‘above 3,000 feet, October 1896,’’ thereby designating it the lectotype. See illustration on cover. Paralectotypes are: AMNH 659488, male, 3500 ft, October; AMNH 659489, male, above 3500 ft, November; AMNH 659490, male, 4000 ft, October; AMNH 659491, immature male, above 3500 ft, November; AMNH 659492, immature male, above 3500 ft, November; AMNH 659493, immature male, above 3500 ft, November; AMNH 659494, immature female, above 3500 ft, November; AMNH 659495, female, above 3000 ft, October; and AMNH 659496, female, 3500 ft, October, all collected by Everett on south Flores in 1896. There is also a paralectotype in NNM ( Dekker and Quaisser, 2006: 6).

Hartert (1897e) reported on Everett’s collection and ( Hartert, 1897e: 513) gave his collecting locality as Nanga Ramau or Nanga Roma in the district called Manggarai, 08.30S, 120.15E (USBGN, 1982). Manggarai is not in south Flores; rather, it is in central western Flores, more like the ‘‘ Flores meridionalis’’ given as the type locality by Hartert in the original description. I have not found either Nanga Ramau or Nanga Roma; however, ‘‘Nanga’’ refers to a stream. There is a stream known as Nanga Ramah at 08.20S, 120.41E (USBGN, 1982), which may correspond to the type locality.