Phyllergates everetti dumasi 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 : 52-53

Phyllergates everetti dumasi Hartert

Phyllergates everetti dumasi Hartert, 1899d: 31 (Mt. Mada, Buru) .

Now Orthotomus cucullatus dumasi (Hartert, 1899) . See White and Bruce, 1986: 350–351, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 423.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 592485 , adult male, collected on Mount Madang (5 Mount Mada ), 3000 ft, ca. 03.15S, 126.10E, Buru

Island, Moluccas, Indonesia, in September 1898, by J. Dumas. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert did not designate a type in the original description or say how many specimens he examined. Later, Hartert (1900c: 238) noted that Dumas had collected four specimens on Mt. Mada. Still later, Hartert (1920: 468) designated a male collected on Mt. Mada in September 1898 as the lectotype. There are two specimens bearing these data, but AMNH 592485 bears the Rothschild type label and Hartert has written ‘‘Type’’ on the field label. Because it was Hartert’s intention that this specimen should be considered the type and and because it bears the Rothschild type label, I hereby designate it the lectotype of Phyllergates everetti dumasi to avoid possible confusion in interpreting the older literature. The paralectotypes are AMNH 592486, male, and AMNH 592487 and 592488, females, all collected on Mt. Mada by Dumas in September 1898.