Rhagologus leucostigma (Salvadori, 1876)

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 : 10

Rhagologus leucostigma novus Rand

Rhagologus leucostigma novus Rand, 1940: 7 (Weyland Mountains, 1500 meters, Netherland [sic] New Guinea).

Now Rhagologus leucostigma novus Rand, 1940. See Dickinson, 2003: 474, and Boles, 2007: 411.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 302289 , adult male, collected on Mount Kunupi , 03.50S, 135.25E ( USBGN, 1943), Kobowre (5 Weyland) Mountains, 1500 meters, Papua Province, Indonesia, on 9 September 1931, by Georg Stein (no. 1753).

COMMENTS: Rand gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description. Hartert et al. (1936: 206) reported that Stein collected 14 males and 5 females; part of this collection remained in ZMB, and those specimens are not paratypes of novus. Rand would have had before him only the Stein specimens that came to AMNH. His type series comprised 10 males and three females from the Weyland Mountains and a male from the Utanata River, figured by Ogilvie-Grant (1915, pl. iv). Paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 302288, 302290–302297, males, and AMNH 302298– 302300, females. Of these, AMNH 302296 was exchanged to FMNH in the 1960s. The ‘‘K’’ on Stein’s original label of the holotype stands for his locality ‘‘Kunupi,’’ at which place the Steins had a mid-mountain camp. It is shown on the map in Hartert et al. (1936:168) as near the middle of the Menoo River, a tributary of the Wanggar River, 03.24S, 135.20E (USBGN, 1982). I hereby restrict the type locality of R. l. novus to Mt. Kunupi. See Stein (1933, 1936) for field notes and for further information on his collecting localities.

AMNH 302462 , male, collected on Mt. Kunupi on 18 September 1931 by Stein (no. 1767), was originally identified and cataloged as Climacteris placens ; because an added remark in the AMNH catalog notes its reidentification as R. l. novus and because all of Rand’s listed type series is accounted for in AMNH, I assume that the reindentification occurred after novus was described, and I do not consider it a paratype .