Orthnocichla everetti 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 : 5-6

Orthnocichla everetti Hartert

Orthnocichla everetti Hartert, 1897b: 170 (South Flores).

Now Tesia everetti everetti (Hartert, 1897) . See King, 1989, and Mees, 2006: 154–158.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 573644 , male, collected on south Flores, above 3500 ft, Indonesia, in November 1896, by collectors for Alfred Everett. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert did not designate a type or indicate the number of specimens collected; however, the above specimen is marked ‘‘Type of species’’. Hartert (1897d: 513–528), in his paper on Everett’s entire Flores collection, did not add additional information. Later, Hartert (1922: 365), in his list of types in the Rothschild Collection, designated a male collected in November 1896 as the lectotype. AMNH 573644 is the only male collected in November that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, and it bears the Rothschild type label.

There are six paralectotypes in AMNH: AMNH 573645 and 573646, males, both collected in October ; AMNH 573647– 573649 , females, collected in October and November ; and AMNH 216455 , male, collected in November and marked as ‘‘Cotype’’ (used in the sense of paratype), exchanged to AMNH 10 September 1927 by Rothschild. Presumably, Rothschild would not have exchanged a specimen that he considered the type. Two additional specimens from Everett’s collection, AMNH 295038 , male, and 295039, female, were purchased from W.F.H. Rosenberg by Dr. Leonard C. Sanford in 1931 and donated to the department. They do not bear Rothschild collection labels and I do not consider them paralectotypes .

On the back of Everett’s label of the lectotype is ‘‘Repok 3500’’ in what appears to be Everett’s hand. This is Gunung Repok, 08.45S, 120.21E (BirdLife International, 2001: 2603), and ‘‘3500’’ represents the altitude in feet.