Orthnocichla whiteheadi Sharpe

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 : 6

Orthnocichla whiteheadi Sharpe

Orthnocichla whiteheadi Sharpe, 1888c: 478 (Kina Balu).

Now Urosphena whiteheadi (Sharpe, 1888) . See King, 1989, and Smythies, 2000: 520.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 573639 , adult male, collected on Mount Kinabalu , 4000 ft, 06.03N, 116.32E (Times Atlas), Sabah, Malaysia, on 14 March 1888, by John Whitehead (no. 2207). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Sharpe described only the male and said that Whitehead had returned with all of his collection. He did not designate a type or indicate how many specimens he had. Later, Sharpe and Whitehead (1889: 410, pl. 12) listed a male collected on 14 February 1888 and a male and a female collected in March 1888. Rothschild purchased a large portion of Whitehead’s Kinabalu collection, and all three of these specimens came to AMNH. Hartert (1922: 366) listed Whitehead specimen number 2207 as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype; AMNH 573640 (Whitehead no. 1991), male, and AMNH 573641 (2359), female, are paralectotypes.