Androphilus accentor Sharpe

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 12

Androphilus accentor Sharpe

Androphilus accentor Sharpe, 1888b: 390 (Kina Balu).

Now Bradypterus accentor (Sharpe, 1888) . See Watson et al., 1986a: 30, and Smythies, 2000: 522.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 588291 , adult male, collected on Mount Kinabalu , 8000 ft, 06.03N, 116.32E (Times Atlas), Sabah, Malaysia, on 3 February 1888, by John Whitehead (no. 1939). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Sharpe (1888b: 391) described both male (no. 1939) and female (no. 2087), giving Whitehead’s number for each; thus they were syntypes. Both labels are marked ‘‘Type RBS[harpe]’’ and both bear Rothschild type labels. However, Hartert (1920: 485) listed only the male (no. 1939) as the type, thereby making it the lectotype. The female, AMNH 588290 , collected on Kinabalu, 8000 ft, on 29 February 1888, by Whitehead (no. 2087) is accordingly the paralectotype. Because it bears a Rothschild type label, it has been retained in the type collection, with a label explaining its status. Two additional specimens collected on Kinabalu by Whitehead, AMNH 588292 and 588293, have no type status .