Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:
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Pachycephalidae
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Aegithalidae
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Remizidae
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Paridae
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Sittidae
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Neosittidae
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Certhiidae
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Rhabdornithidae
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Climacteridae
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Dicaeidae
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Pardalotidae
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Nectariniidae, And
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Lecroy, Mary
Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History (lecroy @ amnh. org)
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2010
2010-06-03
2010
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Pachycephala schlegeli
(sic)
obscurior
Hartert
Pachycephala schlegeli
(sic)
obscurior
Hartert (
in
Rothschild and Hartert), 1896a: 15 (The southeastern representative form).
Now
Pachycephala schlegelii obscurior
Hartert, 1896
.
See
Coates, 1990: 206–208
, and
Boles, 2007: 419
.
LECTOTYPE
:
AMNH 658327
, adult male, collected in the
Eafa
district, between mounts Alexander,
09.15S
,
147.40E
(
USBGN
, 1943) and
Bellamy
,
09.00S
,
147.45E
(
USBGN
, 1943),
5000–6000 ft
,
Central Province
,
Papua New Guinea
, in
October 1895
, by
A.S. Anthony
(no. 17).
From
the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Hartert did not designate a type in the original description but said that he had
two males
, one from the
Eafa
district (collected by Anthony in
October 1895
) and one from the
Victoria district
(purchased in London,
Rothschild and Hartert, 1896a: 8
).
Rothschild and Hartert (1903a: 103)
listed the
Eafa
district male as the type, thereby designating it the
lectotype
. The second specimen in the type series was from the
Victoria district
. There is no specimen now in AMNH labeled ‘‘
Victoria
district’’; AMNH 658345, [male] collected on Mt.
Victoria
in
April–June 1896
by a native collector is the only Mt.
Victoria
specimen of this form to come to AMNH. If the date on that specimen is correct, it could not have been part of the type series, as the article in which the description of
obscurior
appeared was published in
March 1896
. There is no reason to doubt the date, because a spot check of Mt.
Victoria
specimens in AMNH revealed specimens collected there in 1895, 1896, 1897, and 1898, indicating multiple purchases by Rothschild from a London dealer. It is more reasonable to assume that Rothschild exchanged the Mt.
Victoria
specimen before the Rothschild Collection came to AMNH.
Dekker and Quaisser (2006:9)
listed a
syntype
(
5
paralectotype
) of
obscurior
in RMNH, collected on Mt.
Victoria
in 1895 and obtained from BMNH, but that specimen could only be a
paralectotype
of
obscurior
if it had been exchanged to BMNH by Rothschild and later exchanged by BMNH to RMNH.
Rothschild and Hartert (1903a: 103)
listed a male from the ‘‘Moroka district’’ as ‘‘
Purchased in London’
’;
this specimen is not in
AMNH
.
It
may be that this was the second specimen of the original description, as
Moroka
(ca.
09.25S
,
147.35E
), while considerably south of
Mt.
Victoria
(
08.52S
,
147.32E
, Times Atlas), is closer to the collecting locality of the
lectotype
.