Cyornis hyacinthina kühni 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 : 93

Cyornis hyacinthina kühni Hartert

Cyornis hyacinthina kühni Hartert, 1904a: 204 (Wetter) .

Now Cyornis hyacinthinus kuehni Hartert, 1904 . See White and Bruce, 1986: 359, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 159.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 605473 , adult male, collected on Wetar (5 Wetter) Island, 07.48S, 126.18E ( White and Bruce, 1986: 491), Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, on 24 September 1902, by Heinrich Kühn (no. 5467). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert cited Kühn’s unique field number of the holotype. The type series comprised nine males and seven females, including the holotype, all collected on Wetar in September and October 1902. Of the 15 paratypes, only 5 males and 4 females came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection: AMNH 605474– 605482.

Watson et al. (1986b: 359) included this species in the genus Niltava .