Bradypterus montis timorensis Mayr

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 : 11-12

Bradypterus montis timorensis Mayr

Bradypterus montis timorensis Mayr, 1944a: 158 (Mt. Mutis (1800 meters), Timor).

Now Bradypterus timorensis Mayr, 1944 . See Dickinson et al., 2000: 41–42.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 308007 , adult male, collected on Mount Mutis , 1800 m, 04.35S, 124.15E (Times Atlas), Timor Island , Indonesia, on 1 March 1932, by Georg Stein (no. 3175). From the Georg Stein Expedition.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mayr gave the AMNH number of the holotype and noted ( Mayr, 1944a: 136) that two specimens (male and female) of the new subspecies were collected. The paratype is AMNH 345901, female, collected on Mt. Mutis on 1 March 1932, by G. Stein (no. 3176).

This expedition by Georg Stein and his wife, Clara, was sponsored jointly by AMNH and ZMB, supported by J. Sterling Rockefeller. In this case, both specimens were retained at AMNH. Stein did not write an account of this expedition as his home and all of his notebooks were destroyed during World War II ( Stresemann, 1967: 186–187).