Dicruropsis guillemardi Salvadori

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 58

Dicruropsis guillemardi Salvadori

Dicruropsis guillemardi Salvadori, 1890: 220 (Bisa Isl., Obi Group).

Now Dicrurus hottentottus guillemardi ( Salvadori, 1890) . See Hartert, 1919: 132; Vaurie, 1949b: 301; 1962: 151; White and Bruce, 1986: 317; Dickinson, 2003: 492–493; and Rocamora and Yeatman-Berthelot, 2009: 213–214.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 672622 , adult female, Bisa Island , 01.15S, 127.28E ( White and Bruce, 1986: 490), Obi Group, Moluccas, Indonesia, on 13 October 1883, by F.H.H. Guillemard. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Guillemard (1885b: 571) had collected a single female specimen on Bisa; he refrained from naming it but gave a description of how it differed from other nearby forms and particularly noted that it had a brown iris. Salvadori (1890: 220) based his description on Guillemard’s comments and noted that the specimen was in the Rothschild Collection. Guillemard (1889: 354– 355) had spent only two or three hours on Bisa, but he does provide a description of the island.

The reference to the description of this form in Vaurie (1949b: 301; 1962: 151) is somewhat confusing. The ‘‘p. 94’’ given refers to pagination in preprints covering parts of Salvadori’s ‘‘Aggiunte,’’ which I have not seen. In this case, the date of the preprint is 1890. The ‘‘page 220’’ given for the description is not in ‘‘vol. 11,’’ but in volume 40, no. 2 of the ‘‘Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino,’’ also published in 1890 ( Dickinson et al., 2011: 218–219).