Pinarolestes megarhynchus batantae Meise, 1929

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 45-46

[ Pinarolestes megarhynchus batantae Meise ]

Pinarolestes megarhynchus batantae Meise, 1929: 18 (Batanta) .

Now Colluricincla megarhyncha batantae ( Meise, 1929) . See Eck and Quaisser, 2004: 279, and Boles, 2007: 431.

The female holotype of batantae from

Batanta Island , 00.50S, 130.40E ( USBGN, 1982), Papua Province, Indonesia, in SMTD, was destroyed during WWII ( Eck and Quaisser, 2004: 279). Five paratypes from Batanta mentioned in the original description as being in the Rothschild Collection, are now in AMNH: AMNH 657016 , male, 26 July 1875, coll. Beccari, Salvadori’s ‘‘z 9 ’’ ; AMNH 657017 , male, July 1875, coll. Bruijn, Salvadori’s ‘‘v 9 ’’ ; AMNH 657018 , male, 20 October 1883, coll .?; AMNH 657020 , female, 20 October 1883, coll ?; AMNH 657021 , sex?, 20 October 1883, coll. Powell. Of these, AMNH 657018 was exchanged to FMNH in the 1960s. AMNH 657020 , the only female paratype (the holotype was a female), has been added to the AMNH type specimens with a label to explain its presence .

AMNH 657021, listed above as collected by Powell, had a printed label ‘‘E. Museo C.T. Kettlewell,’’ with Kettlewell’s name crossed out and ‘‘Powell’’ written above. C.T. Kettlewell was owner and Captain of the yacht Marchesa, and Lt. R.ff. Powell was among personnel aboard when it visited ‘‘Marchesa Bay,’’ a large bay on the east coast of Batanta Island, on the four or five days prior to 23 October 1883 (See Guillemard, 1889: 364–365). The other two specimens collected on the same day, but with no information on the collector, were undoubtedly collected by the same party. They are perhaps additional to the male, two females, and one sex? reported by Guillemard (1885: 637) as they do not have Guillemard labels nor are they labeled ‘‘a–d’’ as indicated by him.

Meise also mentioned in the original description that Salvadori’s specimens labeled ‘‘n 9 ’’ and ‘‘o 9 ’’ (now AMNH 657019 and 657022), the collecting locality of which had been questioned by Salvadori, were found to be specimens of the nominate subspecies, and thus were excluded from his type series.

Myiolestes megarhynchus ferrugineus Hartert