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
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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)
.