Dendrophila corallipes Sharpe

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 : 84

Dendrophila corallipes Sharpe

Dendrophila corallipes Sharpe, 1888b: 479 (Mountain of Kina Balu).

Now Sitta frontalis corallipes (Sharpe, 1888) . See Dickinson et al., 2006b: 293, and Harrap, 2008b: 142–143.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 684092 , adult female, collected on Mt. Kinabalu , 3000 ft, 06.03N, 116.32E (Times Atlas), Sabah, Malaysia, on 26 February 1887, by John Whitehead (no. 1030). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the description of this form nor was the number of specimens listed, but Sharpe (1888b: 478) had before him Whitehead’s entire 1887 collection made during his second ascent of Kinabalu and based his descriptions on those specimens. In his later account of Whitehead’s four years of travels in northern Borneo ( Sharpe, 1889), he again did not name a type for corallipes , but listed a total of five specimens, only one of which was collected in 1887. The data on AMNH 684092 match the data listed by Sharpe (1889: 420) as his specimen ‘‘d,’’ and the reverse of Whitehead’s label is marked ‘‘ Type RBS,’’ indicating that it was the specimen chosen, but not published, by Sharpe as the type. Hartert (1920a: 440) listed this specimen as the type, adding Whitehead’s no. 1030.