Hypothymis azurea symmixta Stresemann, 1913

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Hypothymis azurea symmixta Stresemann

Hypothymis azurea symmixta Stresemann, 1913a: 294 (Alor) .

Now Hypothymis azurea prophata Oberholser, 1911 . See White and Bruce, 1986: 364, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 280–281.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 649920 , adult male, collected on Alor Island , 08.15S, 124.45E ( White and Bruce, 1986: 490), Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, in March, 1897, by Alfred Everett. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Stresemann designated as the type a specimen in the Rothschild Collection collected on Alor in March 1897. This is the only Alor specimen collected in March. His paratypes included 6 specimens in BMNH (marked with asterisks) and 17, including the holotype, in the Rothschild Collection , for which he gave measurements. There are 16 paratypes at AMNH, all of which would have been available to Stresemann when he described symmixta. The number of specimens from each island and their sex do not exactly correlate with the number of measurements given by Stresemann. In the following list of paratypes, the AMNH number and the sex as given on the label are followed by the number given by Stresemann in brackets. Lombok Island, three males, AMNH 649904–649906 , female, AMNH 649907 [five males] ; Sumbawa Island ,, six males, AMNH 649908–649913 , three females, 649914–649916 [six males, three females] ; Flores Island,, two males, AMNH 649917 and 649918 [1 male] ; Alor Island , AMNH 649919 , collected in April 1897 [one male plus the holotype]. Bali specimens are not included among the paratypes because Stresemann considered the Bali population to be transitional between H. a. symmixta and H. a. prophata and questioned its subspecific determination .