Rhipidura saipanensis 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 : 236

Rhipidura saipanensis Hartert

Rhipidura saipanensis Hartert, 1898a: 54 (Saipan) . Now Rhipidura rufifrons saipanensis Hartert, 1898 .

See del Hoyo et al., 2006: 231.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 650816 , adult male, collected on Saipan Island , 15.12N, 145.43E (Times Atlas), Mariannas Islands , Micronesia, on 1 August 1895, by collectors for Alan Owston (no. A23). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: A male type was indicated in the original description, but the total number of specimens was not mentioned. There were four males collected, and the measurements given were not individually diagnostic. Hartert (1920: 497) listed the specimen bearing the unique date of 1 August 1895 as the type of R. saipanensis , thereby designating it the lectotype. Paralectotypes are AMNH 650817– 650822.