Sericornis arfakiana Salvadori, 1876

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 : 136

Sericornis arfakiana Salvadori Sericornis magnirostris cantans Mayr

Sericornis arfakiana Salvadori, 1876: 962 (Monte Arfak) .

Now Sericornis nouhuysi cantans Mayr, 1930 . See Mayr, 1930b: 177, Mayr, 1986b: 421, and Dickinson, 2003: 446.

Syntype: AMNH 601630, adult female, collected at Mori, 3500 ft, on Mount Arfak, 01.14S, 134.01E (Times Atlas), Papua Province, Indonesia, on 3 May 1875, by ‘‘David’’ for Odoardo Beccari. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Salvadori wrote that he had six specimens: two females collected by Beccari and three males and one female collected by Bruijn. No type was designated. The above specimen was Salvadori’s specimen marked ‘‘c’’ and is marked ‘‘Typus’’; however, apparently Salvadori marked all of the specimens of his new forms ‘‘Typus’’. It was listed as a ‘‘co-type’’ (in the sense of syntype) by Hartert (1920: 461). Other syntypes are in Genoa ( Arbocco et al., 1979: 221).

Salvadori (1876: 960) named Gerygone? arfakiana and Sericornis arfakiana ( Salvadori, 1876: 962) . Mayr (1930b: 177), as first revisor, placed both forms in the genus Sericornis and selected Sericornis arfakiana Salvadori (1876: 960) as the senior name. By that action, Sericornis arfakiana Salvadori (1876: 962) became preoccupied, and Mayr provided the replacement name Sericornis magnirostris cantans , now Sericornis nouhuysi cantans .

Arbocco et al. (1979: 221) wrote that Meise (1935) designated a lectotype for Sericornis arfakiana Salvadori, 1876 in the course of his revision of the genus Gerygone . There is no 1935 publication by Meise listed in the bibliography by Arbocco et al., and I have been unable to find such a publication. Meise (1931) did publish a revision of Gerygone but did not there discuss Sericornis arfakiana Salvadori, 1876 . If the statement by Arbocco et al. (1979: 221) ‘‘ Lectotipo designato da Meise 1935) (*): sC.E. 11726, Nuova Guinea: M. Arfak, 3.V.1875. A.A. Bruijn’’ is considered designation of a lectotype, then the above syntype would become a paralectotype.