Pachycephala melanura buruensis 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 : 23-24

Pachycephala melanura buruensis Hartert

Pachycephala melanura buruensis Hartert, 1899d: 32 (Buru) .

Now Pachycephala macrorhyncha buruensis Hartert, 1899 . See White and Bruce, 1986: 379–381, Dickinson, 2003: 476, and Boles, 2007: 421.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 657483 , adult male, collected on Kapalatmada (5 Mount Madang or Mada , as on label), 3000 ft, 03.15S, 126.09E ( USBGN, 1982), Buru Island, Moluccas, Indonesia, in August or September 1898, by J.M. Dumas. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert did not designate a type in the original description, based on specimens collected by Dumas; nor did he ( Hartert, 1900b: 237) provide information on a type in his paper on the birds of Buru, which also included a collection made by Doherty. Hartert (1920a: 448) listed as the type of buruensis an adult male collected on ‘‘Mt. Mada,’’ 3000 ft, August–September 1898, by J. Dumas. There are three specimens now in AMNH with identical data, but AMNH 657483 bears a Rothschild type label and a field label marked ‘‘Type’’ and is Hartert’s intended type. In order to confirm Hartert’s intent and to remove any ambiguity created by additional specimens with identical data, I hereby designate AMNH 657483 the lectotype of Pachycephala melanura buruensis Hartert.

Although Hartert described adult male and female and immature male in the original description, he did not enumerate his specimens. The following paralectotypes are Dumas specimens now in AMNH: AMNH 657484–657486 , adult males ; and AMNH 657487 , immature male. Other specimens, including at least one adult female, may have been exchanged by Rothschild before his collection came to AMNH .

The field label on Dumas’ specimens is printed with A. Everett’s name. Dumas was Everett’s assistant in the field and arrangements had been made for him to collect on Buru shortly before Everett’s death in 1898.

Stresemann (1914b: 361) noted that Kapala Madang was an equivalent name for Mt. Fogha and Mt. Mada ; I think this refers to Kapalatmada, 03.15S, 126.09E ( USBGN, 1982), although Rothschild and Hartert (1923: 118) listed Mount Fogha 5 Mount Tomahu , 03.14S, 126.04E ( USBGN, 1982) .