Rhipidura atra vulpes Mayr, 1931

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 : 225

Rhipidura atra vulpes Mayr

Rhipidura atra vulpes Mayr, 1931d: 684 (Cyclopengebirge) .

Now Rhipidura atra vulpes Mayr, 1931 . See del Hoyo et al., 2006: 235.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 651765 , adult female, collected in the Pegunungan Cycloop (5 Cyclops Mountains ), 02.32S, 140.36E ( USBGN, 1982a), Papua Province, Indonesia, on 5 September 1928, by Ernst Mayr (no. 2167). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mayr’s Cyclops Mountains specimens were divided between Rothschild and L.C. Sanford for AMNH, with a representative selection sent to MZB ( Hartert, 1930a: 19). In the original description, the holotype of vulpes was said to be in the Rothschild Collection and to be a female, collected on 5 September 1928, bearing Mayr’s field number 2167. This specimen was not recognized as a type when the Rothschild Collection came to AMNH, and it was inadvertently exchanged to FMNH in the early 1960s and cataloged as FMNH 280390. This error has now been rectified through the kindness of FMNH, and the holotype has been returned to AMNH in exchange for paratype AMNH 293936.

Mayr collected 7 male and 6 female specimens, of which 11 came to AMNH, and apparently 2 were sent to MZB. AMNH 293933–293937, 651763, 651764, and 651766– 651768 are paratypes, of which AMNH 293936 and 651763 have been exchanged to FMNH.