Pseudotharrhaleus caudatus Ogilvie-Grant

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

Pseudotharrhaleus caudatus Ogilvie-Grant

Pseudotharrhaleus caudatus Ogilvie-Grant, 1895b: 40 (mountains of Lepanto in Northern Luzon).

Now Bradypterus caudatus caudatus (Ogilvie-Grant, 1895) . See Dickinson et al., 1991: 341, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 608.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 598245 , adult female, collected on Mount Data , 7500 ft, 16.51N, 120.52E ( Dickinson et al., 1991: 418), Mountain Province, Luzon Island, Philippines, on 25 January 1895, by John Whitehead (no. A48) ; and AMNH 598246 , adult male, collected at 8000 ft in Lepanto , Mountain Province, Luzon Island, Philippines, on 27 January 1895, by J. Whitehead (no. A62) .

COMMENTS: In the original description, Ogilvie-Grant did not designate a type or say how many specimens he had. Warren and Harrison (1971: 98) listed a male syntype in BMNH and referred to the female syntype in AMNH (fide Hartert, 1920: 484), stating in error that only two specimens were collected. Hartert (1920: 484) listed the specimen that is now AMNH 598245 as the ‘‘Type of ♀. –J.W.’’ This does not serve to designate a lectotype. Whitehead (1899: 222) said that ‘‘not more than three specimens were captured in the several months spent in the Luzon highlands’’; the third specimen, AMNH 598246, is also a syntype, even though it had not been recognized as such previously. It has now been added to the AMNH type collection.

The genus Pseudotharrhaleus was described by Ogilvie-Grant (1895b: 40) at the same time, with P. caudatus as the type species.