Orthotomus ruficeps rubicundulus Chasen and Kloss

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 : 53

Orthotomus ruficeps rubicundulus Chasen and Kloss

Orthotomus ruficeps rubicundulus Chasen and Kloss, 1931: 279 (Sirhassen Island, South Natuna Islands).

Now Orthotomus sericeus rubicundulus Chasen and Kloss, 1931 . See Smythies, 2000: 532–533, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 425.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 592445 , adult male, collected on Serasan Island (5 Sirhassen Island), 02.30N, 109.03E ( USBGN, 1982a), South Natuna Islands, Indonesia, on 23 September 1893, by Alfred Everett. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Chasen and Kloss designated as type an adult male with wing measuring 55 mm. They had in their type series four specimens of this form, including the holotype, which they had borrowed from Rothschild. They labeled each of these specimens with a long narrow label on which is typed ‘‘ Orthotomus ruficeps rubicundulus Chas. & Kloss’’, with AMNH 592445 being additionally marked ‘‘Type’’. The wing of this specimen measures 55 mm. The three paratypes are AMNH 592447, adult male with wing 54 mm, AMNH 592448 and 592449, females with wings measuring 50 and 53 mm, respectively, all from Sirhassen Island, collected by Everett on 23 September 1893. A fifth specimen, AMNH 592446, adult male, was apparently not borrowed and is not a paratype. This form was described too late to have been included in any of Hartert’s lists of Rothschild types, and the holotype bears only an AMNH type label.