Phyllergates cinereicollis 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 : 51

Phyllergates cinereicollis Sharpe

Phyllergates cinereicollis Sharpe, 1888c: 479 (Kina Balu).

Now Orthotomus cucullatus cinereicollis (Sharpe, 1888) . See Smythies, 2000: 531–532, Dickinson, 2003: 563.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 592475 , adult male, collected on Mount Kinabalu , 4000 ft, 06.03N, 116.32E (Times Atlas), Sabah, Malaysia, on 10 February 1888, by John Whitehead (no. 2101). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Sharpe did not designate a type or say how many specimens he examined, but later he (in Sharpe and Whitehead, 1889: 279–280) listed five specimens. Hartert (1920: 467) designated the specimen bearing Whitehead’s number 2101 as the lectotype; it is Sharpe’s ( Sharpe and Whitehead, 1889: 280) specimen ‘‘b’’. Warren and Harrison (1971: 118) listed as holotype a specimen collected on 15 February 1887; however, it cannot be the holotype as none was so designated in the original description. Sharpe (1888c: 478) had in hand Whitehead’s entire collection when this form was described (i.e., the five specimens listed in the later joint paper). The specimen referred to by Warren and Harrison was Sharpe’s specimen ‘‘a’’ and is the specimen referred to by Whitehead (in Sharpe and Whitehead, 1889: 280) as the only one collected in 1887, badly shot up and ‘‘useless for identification’’; it is a paralectotype. The other three specimens are in AMNH and are also paralectotypes: ‘‘c’’ and ‘‘d’’, AMNH 592478 (Whitehead no. 2312) and AMNH 592476 (Whitehead no. 2315), male and female, 26 March 1888, and ‘‘e’’, AMNH 592477 (Whitehead no. 2288), female, 23 March (not 26 May) 1888. Specimen ‘‘e’’ bears Whitehead’s number 2288, indicating that it was collected before specimens collected on the 26 March (nos. 2312 and 2315) and that Sharpe was in error with regard to the date.

Both AMNH 592475 and 592476 were marked ‘‘Type RBS[harpe]’’ in Sharpe’s hand and bear Rothschild type labels, but because the male was designated the lectotype by Hartert (1920: 476), the female becomes a paralectotype. It remains in the AMNH type collection but with an added label to explain its status.

White and Bruce (1986: 350), Smythies (2000: 531), and others spelled the species name ‘‘ cuculatus ’’, considering the original spelling to be the correct one. However, Dickinson (2003: 563) followed most authors and considered the emended name to be in prevailing usage (ICZN, 1999: 42, Art. 33.2.3.1).