Monarcha everetti Hartert, 1896

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 : 203

Monarcha everetti Hartert

Monarcha everetti Hartert, 1896c: 173 (Insula Djampea) .

Now Monarcha everetti Hartert, 1896 . See White and Bruce, 1986: 367, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 308.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 654917 , adult male, collected on Tanahdjampea (5 Djampea) Island, 07.05S, 120.42E ( White and Bruce, 1986: 491), Indonesia, in December 1895, by Alfred Everett. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert did not designate a type and said only that Everett collected a series of adult males and a female in December 1895. Five males and one female came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Hartert (1920: 502) listed his type as in the Rothschild Collection but did not further distinguish it. Only the above specimen bears a Rothschild type label, and the Everett label is marked ‘‘ 5 Type. 5 ’’. Because this is the specimen Hartert intended as his type, I hereby designate AMNH 654917 the lectotype of Monarcha everetti to remove any ambiguity and avoid possible confusion in interpreting the older literature. Paralectotypes are: AMNH 654918–654921, males, and 654922, female, all collected by Everett on Tanahdjampea in December 1895.