Platylophus malaccensis Cabanis, 1866: 310

TL: Malacca.

Now Platylophus galericulatus malaccensis Cabanis, 1866 . See above; formerly erroneously referred to Platylophus galericulatus ardesiacus (Bonaparte, 1850) in Sharpe 1877: 318, Dickinson et al. 2004b: 113.

SYNTYPES: ZMB 17122 [batch acquisition B.289]. Adult. Loc.: Malacca. Coll.: Ihne. [Ex, Mus]. ZMB 17123 [batch acquisition B.289]. Adult. Loc.: Malacca. Coll.: Ihne. [Ex, A /R, no ZMB label]. ZMB 17124 [specimen missing] [batch acquisition B.289]. Adult. Loc.: Malacca. Coll.: Ihne. [Ex, A /R]. ZMB 17125 [batch acquisition B.289]. Immature. Loc.: Malacca. Coll.: Ihne. [Ex, Mus]. ZMB 2002.595 [new registration]. Adult. Loc. Malacca. Coll. Galathea - Expedition. [S, Mus].

COMMENTS: The Dutch engineer and architect W. Ihne (fl. 1850s) collected in Java and Malacca, and the ZMB acquired a large batch of 1368 avian specimens from him in November 1853 (numbered 431 in the acquisition catalogues of the entire museum, 289 in the ornithological catalogues; ZMB archives, Zool. Mus. Sign. SI, Ihne, W., pp. 5–9). Ihne collected 7 specimens of this taxon of which four were given to the ZMB (only these are types), and one each to schools in Breslau [Wrocław], Halle (Saale) and Bonn (none of these school specimens traced; ZMB archives, Zool. Mus. Sign. SI, Ihne, W., p. 8). However, not just these four ZMB specimens were available to Cabanis in 1866, but also a specimen from the Danish Galathea -Expedition 1845–1847, received from Wilhelm Friedrich Georg Behn (see Crypsirhina pallida Blyth, 1846, for more details), one of the expedition’s naturalists. Additional syntypes are found at the MHH (registration numbers MHH 4669, 4670, 4671, 4672) in Halberstadt, all also from Malacca (Quaisser & Nicolai 2006: 70).