Phylloscopus borealis examinandus Stresemann

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 : 60

Phylloscopus borealis examinandus Stresemann

Phylloscopus borealis examinandus Stresemann, 1913b: 353 (Bali).

Now Phylloscopus borealis xanthodryas (Swinhoe, 1863) . See Watson et al., 1986a: 242, White and Bruce, 1986: 345–346, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 661.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 449932 , adult male, collected on Bali Island (low country), 08.20S, 115.00E ( USBGN, 1982a), Indonesia, in March 1896, by William Doherty. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Stresemann, in the original description, designated as type a male in the Rothschild Collection, collected by Doherty on Bali in March 1896. There were two such specimens in his type series, and Hartert’s (1920: 463) listing did not distinguish between them. AMNH 449932 bears the Rothschild type label, has been included in the type collection at AMNH, and has been considered Stresemann’s type. In order to avoid confusion when interpreting the older literature, I hereby designate AMNH 449932 the lectotype of Phylloscopus borealis examinandus .

Stresemann (1913b: 353) listed a type series of 13 specimens, including the type. Although his specimens from the II Freiburger Molukken-Expedition went to the Rothschild Collection ( Stresemann, 1913b: 325), I did not find the molting specimen he mentioned ( Stresemann, 1913b: 354) and perhaps it was not retained. There is, however, a male specimen from Sumba that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection and would have been available to Stresemann even though it is not listed by him. I consider it a paralectotype. The 12 paralectotypes are: AMNH 449854–449857, two males and two sex? from southern Flores; AMNH 449858 and 449859, a male and a female from Sumbawa; AMNH 449865 and 449866, a male and a sex? from Bali; AMNH 449867 and 449868, a male and a sex? from Alor; and AMNH 449875 and 449876, a male and a female from Sumba.