Pachycephala tianduana 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 : 40

Pachycephala tianduana Hartert

Pachycephala tianduana Hartert, 1901d: 53 (Tiandu, west of the Key Islands).

Now Pachycephala monacha tianduana Hartert, 1901 . See White and Bruce, 1986: 381, Sibley and Monroe, 1990: 461, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 448, Dickinson, 2003: 478, and Boles, 2007: 429.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 659272 , adult male, collected on Tayandu (5 Tiandu or Tiandoe) Island, 05.37S, 132.18E ( White and Bruce, 1986: 491), Moluccas, Indonesia, on 19 December 1900, by Heinrich Kühn (no. a.). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description, but three males and a female were collected. Hartert (1903c: 248) listed as the type of tianduana the Kühn specimen marked ‘‘a.,’’ thereby designating it the lectotype. Paralectotypes, all collected on Tayandu Island in December 1900, are: AMNH 659273 , male, Kühn (no. b) ; AMNH 659274 , female, Kühn (no. d) ; and AMNH 659275 , unsexed but annotated ‘‘male ad. E.H.,’’ Kühn (no. c). By the time Hartert (1903c: 248) published a full account of Kühn’s collections from the Key and Southeast islands , he had in his possession a second female specimen. AMNH 659276 , female, collected on Heniar Island, ‘‘ Tiandoe Islands’ ’ on 17 July 1899 by Kühn (no. 1307) ; it had not been included in Hartert’s type series and was perhaps purchased later by Rothschild .

White and Bruce (1986: 381) treated tianduana as a subspecies of P. leucogastra , with the caveat that P. rufiventris , P. leucogastra , P. griseonota , P. monacha , and P. arctitorquis might be better treated as allospecies of the superspecies P. [ rufiventris ]. Sibley and Monroe (1990: 461) followed the latter suggestion, as did Schodde and Mason (1999: 448) and Boles (2007: 429). Mayr (1967: 32–35) included tianduana as well as 19 other subspecies in the very broad species P. rufiventris . Dickinson (2003: 478) did not consider arctitorquis an allospecies separate from P. monacha .