Edolisoma obiense pelingi Hartert

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 66-67

Edolisoma obiense pelingi Hartert

Edolisoma obiense pelingi Hartert, 1918a: 27 (Peling) .

Now Coracina tenuirostris pelingi (Hartert, 1918) . See White and Bruce, 1986: 305, Dickinson and Dekker, 2002a: 12, and Dickinson et al., 2002a: 37.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 562552 , [female], collected on Peleng Island , 01°25′S, 123°10′E ( Seltzer, 1962: 1446), Banggai Archipelago, Indonesia, May–August 1895, by Cursham. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1918a: 27) listed the type as an adult female in the Rothschild Collection, collected on Peleng by Cursham in the summer (evidently the northern summer) of 1895. The sex of this specimen was in brackets on the original label, probably indicating that it was sexed by plumage rather than by dissection. The only other specimen from Peleng in female plumage has no indication of sex on the label. The type series was said to consist of four males and four females from Peling and Banggai islands and ‘‘some more in the Dresden Museum’’. There are seven paratypes at AMNH: AMNH 562553–562559.

Hartert (1922b: 374) called attention to the fact that the original description was actually published in January 1918, despite the printed date of publication as 29 December 1917.