Corythocichla crassa Sharpe

Mary, Croy, History, Bulletin Of The American Museum Of Natural, At, Central Park West, Street, Th, York, New & Ny, 2005, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 6. Passeriformes: Prunellidae, Turdidae, Orthonychidae, Timaliidae, Paradoxornithidae, Picathartidae, And Polioptilidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (292), pp. 1-132 : 78

Corythocichla crassa Sharpe

Corythocichla crassa Sharpe, 1888: 391 (Kina Balu, Northern Borneo).

Now Napothera crassa ( Sharpe, 1888) . See Smythies and Davison, 1999: 505–506.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 589440 , adult female, collected on Kinabalu , 8000 feet, 068039N, 1168329E (Times Atlas), Sabah, Malaysia, on 15 February 1888, by John Whitehead (no. 1994). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Sharpe, when he named C. crassa , described both male and female and listed the Whitehead field numbers of the two syntypes. This is probably a case where Whitehead sent ahead to Sharpe two specimens of what he supposed would prove to be a new form (see Whitehead, 1893: 185), for when Sharpe and Whitehead (1889: 418) reported on the entire collection, five specimens collected in February and March 1888 were listed. Because Sharpe (1888: 392) apparently had only two specimens when he described C. crassa , the other specimens have no nomenclatural standing. It seems to have been a lapsus that Hartert (1920: 481) listed only the female syntype as the ‘‘type’’, because both specimens bear Rothschild type labels and both are marked ‘‘type’’ by R.B.S[harpe]. However, as a result of this, AMNH 589438, male, collected at the same place on the same date by Whitehead (no. 2081), becomes the paralectotype. Both specimens remain in the type collection, with labels added to explain their status.

Sibley and Monroe (1990: 634) noted that