Mochthopoeus amoenus 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 : 67

Mochthopoeus amoenus Hartert

Mochthopoeus amoenus Hartert, 1929: 13 (Kulambangra) .

Now Phylloscopus amoenus ( Hartert, 1929) . See Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 391.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 220110 , adult male, collected on Kolombangara (5 Kulambangra) Island, 08.00S, 157.10E (Times Atlas), Solomon Islands, on 11 October 1927, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 28508).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. Two adult males and a female? had been sent to Hartert for study. As described under Phylloscopus trivirgatus becki , the specimens that Hartert examined were labeled with the new name in his characteristic hand and ink. The two paratypes are: AMNH 220111 , adult male, collected on 12 October 1927 ; and AMNH 220112 , female?, collected on 13 (not 12) October 1927. Two additional specimens, AMNH 225199 and 225200, cataloged later and not sent to Hartert, are not paratypes .

The genus Mochthopoeus was also described here ( Hartert, 1929: 12), with Mochthopoeus amoenus the type species. Mayr (1944b: 4–5) gave reasons for not recognizing Mochthopoeus and noted that the wing measurements of 88.5–90 mm, given by Hartert in the original description, should have been 58–59.5 mm.