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 Author Lecroy, Mary Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 2014-12-30 2014 393 1 165 journal article 7639 10.1206/885.1 48769858-fe3b-415b-9ac8-3feeb42a9bae 0003-0090 4629954 Manucodia ater subalter Rothschild and Hartert Manucodia ater subalter Rothschild and Hartert, 1929b: 110 (Dobbo, Aru Islands) . Now Manucodia ater subalter Rothschild and Hartert, 1929 . See Mayr, 1941: 168 ; 1962d: 184 ; Gilliard, 1956 ; 1969: 95–100 ; Coates, 1990: 430–431 ; Cracraft, 1992: 8–9 ; Frith and Beehler, 1998: 211–217 ; and Frith and Frith, 2009b: 462– 463 . LECTOTYPE : AMNH 677266 , adult male, collected at Dobo (= Dobbo), 05.46S , 134.13E ( USBGN , 1982), Aru Islands , Papua Province , Indonesia , on 31 November 1897 , by Heinrich Kühn (no. 414). From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: In the original description, Rothschild and Hartert designated as the type of subalter a male specimen collected at Dobo, Aru Islands, on 31 November 1897 by H. Kühn. There are, in fact, two specimens collected on that date by Kühn, but AMNH 677266 bears a Rothschild type label, indicating that it was the intended type. It was so cataloged at AMNH and has been so considered ( Frith and Beehler, 1998: 213 ). In order to remove the ambiguity associated with two specimens bearing the same date, I hereby designate AMNH 277266 the lectotype of Manucodia ater subalter . In their original description, Rothschild and Hartert gave the range of subalter as the Aru Islands , southern New Guinea to S.E. Papua , islands of Sariba and Yule. The following specimens are paralectotypes of subalter : Trangan Island , Aru Islands , AMNH 677262–677264 , two males, one female ; Kobror Island , Aru Islands , AMNH 677265 , female ; Dobo , Aru Islands , AMNH 677267–677273 , two males, one female, four unsexed ; Wokam Island , Aru Islands , AMNH 677274 , female ; Yule Island , AMNH 677275 , 677276 , one male, one female ; Mailu District , AMNH 677277 , sex ?; Sariba Island , AMNH 677278 , male, 31 May 1913 , collected by A.F. Eichhorn (no. 5697) ; Mount Victoria , Owen Stanley Mountains , AMNH 677279 , unsexed. Of these, AMNH 677272 was exchanged to FMNH in the 1960s. Except for AMNH 677278 from Sariba Island , collected after the description of altera , the lectotype and paralectotypes of subalter are also paratypes of M. a. altera (see above) .