Poecilodryas placens clara Stresemann and Paludan

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 : 257

Poecilodryas placens clara Stresemann and Paludan

Poecilodryas placens steini Hartert and Paludan (in Hartert et al.), 1936: 211 (Unterer Menoo, 300 m).

Now Poecilodryas placens (E.P. Ramsay, 1879) . See Dickinson, 2003: 519.

SYNTYPES: Males , AMNH 302090 (Stein no. 2270), 6 August 1931 ; AMNH 302091 (2272), 4 August 1931 ; AMNH 302092 (2279), 4 August 1931 ; AMNH 302093 (2286), 5 August 1931 ; AMNH 302094 (2277), 8 August 1931 ; AMNH 302095 (2287), 11 August 1931 ; AMNH 302096 (2276), 12 August 1931 ; AMNH 302097 (2275), 13 August 1931 ; and AMNH 302098 (2284), 15 August 1931 ; females, AMNH 302099 (2271), 2 August 1931 ; AMNH 302100 (2280), 3 August , 1931 ; AMNH 302101 (2282), 6 August 1931 ; and AMNH 302102 (2273), 7 August 1931, all collected at Unterer Menoo , 300 m, Pegunungan Kobowre (5 Weyland Mountains), 03.50S, 135.55E ( USBGN, 1982a), Papua Province, Indonesia. From the Expedition G. Stein 1931–1932 .

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description, with Hartert and Paludan having noted that they had 13 male and 5 female specimens. I did not find a subsequent lectotype designation. The above specimens represent the AMNH share of the Steins’ collection. Two of these, AMNH 302090, now FMNH 280540, and AMNH 302101, now FMNH 280541, were exchanged to FMNH in the 1960s. There are additional syntypes in ZMB (S. Frahnert, personal commun.). These specimens had not been included in the AMNH type collection previously. Stein (1933) published an account of his itinerary and collecting localities in the Weyland Mountains as well as some observations ( Stein, 1936). Hartert et al. (1936) reported on the birds the Steins collected.

The replacement name P. p. clara was introduced by Stresemann and Paludan (1937: 86), with P. p. steini being preoccupied in Poecilodryas by P. hypoleuca steini Stresemann and Paludan, 1932 .