Dammeria henrici 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

Dammeria henrici Hartert

Dammeria henrici Hartert, 1899e: 58 (Island of Dammer in the Banda Sea).

Now Ficedula henrici (Hartert, 1899) . See White and Bruce, 1986: 356, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 138.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 605960 , adult male, collected at Kumar , Damar Island , 07.07S, 128.40E (Times Atlas), Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, on 13 November 1898, by Heinrich Kühn (no. 1038). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert did not designate a type in the original description but described the adult male and female and immature male; later, he ( Hartert, 1900a: 15) noted that he had received nine specimens. Hartert (1920: 493) listed as type the adult male bearing Kühn’s unique number 1038, thereby designating it the lectotype. The eight paralectotypes (four males, three adult females, and one immature female) are: AMNH 265493 (exchanged to AMNH by Rothschild in the 1920s) and AMNH 605961–605967. Kumar is in the northern part of Damar Island.

The fact that the entire type series available to Hartert is now in AMNH indicates that this is another case, in addition to those noted earlier ( LeCroy and Peckover, 1998: 227–228), in which not every specimen taken by a field collector at a particular locality was purchased by Rothschild, with the remainder often, if not always, going to dealers prior to study by Hartert. It is therefore unsafe to assume that specimens such as the ‘‘syntype’’ listed by Dekker (2003: 64), collected by Kühn but coming to Leiden from H. Rolle, were part of the type series.