Rhinomyias colonus Hartert, 1898

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 : 81

Rhinomyias colonus Hartert

Rhinomyias colonus Hartert, 1898c: 131 (Sula Mangoli and Sula Besi) .

Now Rhinomyias colonus colonus Hartert, 1898 . See Vaurie, 1952: 25–27, White and Bruce, 1986: 353, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 112–113.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 652751 , adult male collected on Mangole (5 Mangoli) Island, 01.53S, 125.50E ( USBGN, 1982a), Sula Islands, Indonesia, in November 1897, by William Doherty. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert did not designate a type or say how many specimens he examined. Hartert (1920: 499) listed as the type a male collected on Mangole in November 1897 by Doherty. There are three such specimens in AMNH from the Rothschild Collection, but AMNH 652751 is marked ‘‘Type’’ and bears the Rothschild type label, indicating this was the specimen intended as the type. It has always been so considered, and to remove any ambiguity, I hereby designate AMNH 652751 the lectotype of Rhinomyias colonus . Paralectotypes in AMNH are: AMNH 652752 and 652753, males, AMNH 652754 , male juvenile, AMNH 652755 and 652756, females, all collected on Mangole in October and November 1897 ; and AMNH 652757 , female from Sanana (5 Besi) Island in November 1897 .