Dendrobiastes hyperythra negroides 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 : 90

Dendrobiastes hyperythra negroides Stresemann

Dendrobiastes hyperythra negroides Stresemann, 1914a: 125 (G. Pinaia (Mittel-Seran), 6000 f. and G. Hoale (Mittel-Seran), 3000 f.).

Now Ficedula hyperythra negroides (Stresemann, 1914) . See White and Bruce, 1986: 354–355, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 137.

Syntype: AMNH 605934, adult female, collected on Mount Hoale, 3000 ft, Seram Island, 03.00S, 129.00E ( White and Bruce, 1986: 491), Indonesia, on 4 July 1911, by Erwin Stresemann (no. 692) on the II. Freiburger Molukken-Expedition. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Stresemann designated a male and a female syntype in the original description. The types were to go to the Rothschild Collection ( Stresemann, 1914a: 25–26), but the male syntype of this form did not. Hartert (1920: 493) remarked that ‘‘the male cannot be found now and has unaccountably been lost; there are, however, four other adult males in the collection.’’ Four male specimens and two female specimens came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, but because Stresemann designated syntypes in the original description, the remaining specimens of his very large series are excluded from the type series (ICZN, 1999: 77, Art. 72.4.6). The missing male syntype, bearing Stresemann’s field number 880, collected on Mt. Pinaia, is among the ‘‘syntypes’’ listed by Dekker (2003: 64) in RMNH.