Dicrurus hottentottus morotensis Vaurie, 1946

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 : 55

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/885.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4612256
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0398542A-1908-FFE4-68A2-935B1C54FA44
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scientific name	Dicrurus hottentottus morotensis Vaurie
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Dicrurus hottentottus morotensis Vaurie

Dicrurus hottentottus morotensis Vaurie, 1946: 82 (Morotai Island).

Now Dicrurus bracteatus morotensis Vaurie, 1946 View in CoL . See Vaurie, 1949b: 282–283; 1962: 148–149; White and Bruce, 1986: 314–316; Dickinson, 2003: 493; and Rocamora and Yeatman-Berthelot, 2009: 216–217.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 672587 View Materials , sex?, Morotai (Morty, as on label) Island, 02.20N, 128.25E ( White and Bruce, 1986: 491), Moluccas, Indonesia, undated, collected by J.M. Dumas. From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description, Vaurie cited the AMNH number of the holotype and noted that he had a second specimen. The paratype is: AMNH 672586, sex?, Morotai Island, undated, collected by Dumas. Dumas is known to have collected on Morotai in late 1898 ( LeCroy and Jansen, 2011: 176–177).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Aves
Order	Passeriformes
Family	Dicruridae
Genus	Dicrurus