Acanthopneuste everetti 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 : 64

Acanthopneuste everetti Hartert

Acanthopneuste everetti Hartert, 1899d: 31 (Mt. Mada, Buru) .

Now Phylloscopus poliocephalus everetti (Hartert, 1899) . See White and Bruce, 1986: 348–349, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 671–672.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 450372 , adult male, collected on Mount Mada , 3000 ft, ca. 03.15S, 126.10E, Buru Island, Indonesia, in August and September 1898, by J.M. Dumas. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert did not designate a type either in his original description or in his ( Hartert, 1900c: 239) later report on the birds of Buru; however, he described the male, female, and juvenile. Hartert (1920: 461) in his list of Rothschild types only listed the above type as an adult. Three males and one female came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, all having been collected on Mt. Mada in August and September 1898. AMNH 450372 bears the Rothschild type label, has ‘‘Type’’ written on the field label by Hartert, and is cataloged as the type at AMNH ; I hereby designate it the lectotype of Acanthopneuste everetti to avoid the possibility of confusion in the future. AMNH 450373 , adult male, 450374, adult male, and 450375, adult female, are paratypes .

These specimens all bear field labels printed with A. Everett’s name but were collected by Everett’s assistant, J.M. Dumas, after Everett’s death. AMNH 295077 , male immature, undated, which bears an Everett label but was also collected on Mt. Mada by Dumas (judging by the handwriting), was purchased in 1931 from the dealer W.F.H. Rosenberg by L.C. Sanford and donated to AMNH. It is not known whether this specimen came to Rosenberg via Rothschild and was seen by Hartert ; therefore, I do not consider it a paralectotype.