Siphia bonthaina 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 : 92-93

Siphia bonthaina Hartert

Siphia bonthaina Hartert, 1896b: 157 (Monte Bonthain Peak dicta, Celebes).

Now Ficedula bonthaina (Hartert, 1896) . See White and Bruce, 1986: 357, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 142.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 605528 , adult male, collected above Tasoso , Mount Lompobattang (5 Monte Bonthain Peak ), 05.22S, 119.58E (Times Atlas), Sulawesi Island (5 Celebes), Indonesia, in October 1895, by Alfred Everett. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert did not designate a type in the original description, noting only that Everett had collected a male and a female. Hartert (1897a: 158) mentioned that a single specimen collected later by Doherty agreed with the type of bonthaina , but he did not further distinguish it. By listing the male as the type, Hartert (1920: 492) designated it the lectotype. It bears Everett’s original label, marked ‘‘Type’’, and a Rothschild type label. On the face of Everett’s label the altitude was originally marked ‘‘ 4,000 ft. ’’ and then overwritten as ‘‘ 6,000 ft. ’’; on the reverse is ‘‘Tasoso 4000’’. Hartert (1896b: 149–150) quoted Everett concerning collecting localities: ‘‘My men worked altogether for twentythree days on the Peak, collecting for the most part between 6000 and 7000 feet, and not at all below 5600 feet’’. Tasoso, the highest village in the district, was the base camp of J.M. Dumas, Everett’s assistant. The paralectotype is AMNH 605529, female (marked ‘‘Type of female’’), Bonthain Peak, 6000 ft, October 1895.