Rhipidura celebensis sumbensis 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 : 231

Rhipidura celebensis sumbensis Hartert

Rhipidura celebensis sumbensis Hartert, 1896f: 585 (Sumba) .

Now Rhipidura dryas sumbensis Hartert, 1896 . See White and Bruce, 1986: 372, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 476–478.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 650697 , adult male, collected on Sumba Island , 10.00S, 120.00E ( White and Bruce, 1986: 491), Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, in February 1896, by William Doherty (no. 73). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert did not designate a type in the original description but noted that he had three male specimens collected in February 1896 by Doherty. He did not further differentiate among the specimens when he ( Hartert, 1920: 496) listed Rothschild types. AMNH 650697 bears the Rothschild type label, indicating it is the specimen Hartert intended as the type ; accordingly, I hereby designate it the lectotype of R. c. sumbensis in order to remove any ambiguity and avoid confusion in interpreting the older literature. The paralectotypes are AMNH 650698 and 650699 .