Cettia oreophila 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 : 8

[ Cettia oreophila Sharpe ]

Sharpe’s (1888b: 387) description of this form from Kinabalu was published while Whitehead was still in the field. Because Sharpe listed only two Whitehead numbers (nos. 1937 and 1967) in his description, it is likely that this is one of the cases where Whitehead sent ahead to Sharpe two specimens of forms that he thought were new ( Whitehead, 1893b: 185). Hartert (1920: 458) listed a cotype (5 syntype) of Cettia oreophila as present in the Rothschild Collection and bearing Whitehead’s number 2027; however, this specimen cannot be a syntype even though the label has ‘‘Cotype’’ written on it. It is now AMNH 596929 and it does not now bear a Rothschild type label. A second Whitehead specimen (AMNH 596928, Whitehead no. 2007) collected on Kinabalu also cannot be a syntype. Warren and Harrison (1971: 406) listed a male syntype and other syntypes in the collection of the BMNH without giving Whitehead’s numbers. However, there can only be the two syntypes listed in the original description.