Monarcha kulambangrae Rothschild and 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 : 204-205

Monarcha kulambangrae Rothschild and Hartert

Monarcha kulambangrae Rothschild and Hartert, 1901b: 183 (Kulambangra) .

Now Monarcha browni browni Ramsay, 1883 . See Filardi and Smith, 2005, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 312.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 655015 , adult male, collected on Kolombangara (5 Kulambangra) Island, 00.80S, 157.10E (Times Atlas), Solomon Islands, on 12 March 1901, by Albert S. Meek (no. 2868). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert did not designate a type in the original description but said that they examined one male and two females. Later, Hartert (1920: 502) listed as the type Meek’s male specimen number 2868, thereby designating it the lectotype. Paralectotypes are: AMNH 655016 and 655017, females, collected on Kolombangara in March 1901 by Meek.

This nominal taxon was not listed by Watson et al. (1986c: 512), although Kolombangara was included in the range of M. browni browni .