Horeites pallidipes osmastoni Hartert

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 : 6

Horeites pallidipes osmastoni Hartert

Horeites pallidipes osmastoni Hartert, 1908b: 107 (Port Blair, Andaman Islands).

Now Cettia pallidipes osmastoni (Hartert, 1908) . See King, 1989, and Rasmusson and Anderton, 2005: 480.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 596750 , adult male, collected at Port Blair , 11.40N, 92.44E (Times Atlas), Andaman Islands, India, on 11 December 1906, by B.B. Osmaston. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Although Hartert did not list his specimens, the holotype, listed as the type by Hartert (1920: 458), is the only Osmaston specimen of this form that came to AMNH and apparently the only one available to Hartert when he described the subspecies. In the original description, the collector’s initials were given as ‘‘R.B.’’ The collector’s label is printed with his name ‘‘B.B. Osmaston’’, but due to a ink mark, this was interpreted as ‘‘R.B.’’ and was so printed on the Rothschild label. I thank Edward Dickinson for calling this error to my attention.