Androphilus disturbans Hartert

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 13

Androphilus disturbans Hartert

Androphilus disturbans Hartert, 1900c: 238 (Mt. Mada, Buru) .

Now Bradypterus castaneus disturbans (Hartert, 1900) . See White and Bruce, 1986: 340, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 608–609.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 588301 , immature male, collected on Mount Mada , 3000 ft, ca. 03.15S, 126.10E, Buru Island, Moluccas, Indonesia, in September 1898, by J.M. Dumas. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert noted that Dumas had marked his single specimen ‘‘ ♀ ’’; however, this is an error, as Dumas clearly marked his specimen ‘‘s’’. Alfred Everett, already suffering his fatal illness, had sent his assistant, Dumas, to Buru to make this collection. Hartert (1920: 485) decided on the basis of specimens later collected on Buru by Stresemann that disturbans was a subspecies of B. castaneus . See Drovetski et al. (2004) for recent mitochondrial studies indicating non-monophyly in Bradypterus .

Mt. Mada is shown on some maps as Mt. Madang.