Siphia erithacus 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 : 92

Siphia erithacus Sharpe

Siphia erithacus Sharpe, 1888a: 199 (neighbourhood of Puerto Princesa, Palawan).

Now Ficedula platenae ( Blasius, 1888) . See Dickinson et al., 1991: 350.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 605521 , adult male, collected at Tagusao (5 Taguso, on label), 08.49N, 117.53E ( Dickinson et al., 1991: 426), Palawan Island, Philippines, on 26 June 1887, by John Whitehead (no. 1438).

COMMENTS: Sharpe did not designate a type in the original description or say how many specimens he had; however, he described male and female. Whitehead (1890: 48), in his report on this collection, also did not say how many specimens he collected. Hartert (1920: 492) listed as type of erithacus Whitehead’s specimen no 1438, thereby designating it the lectotype. There are four paralectotypes in AMNH, all from Tagusao: males, AMNH 605522 and 605523; immature male, AMNH 605524; and female, AMNH 605525.

Blasius (1888: 372) noted that his name Siphia platenae was published in March 1888, whereas Sharpe’s S. erithacus was published in April 1888; the priority of Blasius’ name was confirmed by Rand (1955: 211).