Pachycephala fulviventris 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 : 21

Pachycephala fulviventris Hartert

Pachycephala fulviventris Hartert, 1896f: 47 (Sumba) .

Now Pachycephala fulvotincta fulviventris Hartert, 1896 . See Dickinson, 2003: 476, and Boles, 2007: 421.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 657374 , adult male, collected on Sumba Island , 10.00S, 120.00E ( White and Bruce, 1986: 491), Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, in February 1896, by William Doherty. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert did not designate a type in the original description, but described both male and female. In his later account of the entire Doherty collection from Sumba, Hartert (1896d: 583–584) said only that he had a ‘‘good series.’’ Hartert (1920a: 449) listed the type as a male in the Rothschild Collection collected by Doherty in February 1896; however, there are five males from the Rothschild Collection with those data. AMNH 657374 bears the Rothschild type label and Doherty’s label, marked ‘‘Type.’’ In order to remove any ambiguity and confirm Hartert’s chosen specimen as the type, I hereby designate AMNH 657374 the lectotype of Pachycephala fulviventris Hartert. The paralectotypes are: AMNH 657375–657384, four males and six females collected by Doherty on Sumba in February 1896. One additional specimen of Hartert’s original series is in RMNH ( Dekker and Quaisser, 2006: 7). Two AMNH specimens collected by Everett on Sumba in September 1896 were collected after P. fulviventris was published in June.

Information on Doherty’s collecting localities is found in Hartert (1896d: 579), and Doherty (1891) published an article on his earlier butterfly collecting on Sumba, with much information on the island.