Erythromyias buruensis Hartert

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Erythromyias buruensis Hartert

Erythromyias buruensis Hartert, 1899d: 31 (Mt. Mada, Buru) .

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

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 606197 , adult male, collected on Mount Madang (5 Mada), 03.24S, 126.40E ( USBGN, 1982a), Buru Island, Moluccas, Indonesia, in September

1898, by J.M. Dumas. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert did not designate a type or say how many specimens he examined, but he described males and females collected by Dumas. When he reported on the entire Buru collection made by both Dumas and Doherty, Hartert (1900c: 234–235) still did not enumerate his specimens. Later, he ( Hartert, 1920: 493) listed as type an adult male, collected at 3000 ft on Mt. Mada, Buru, by Dumas in September 1898. As there were three males with the same data, this listing does not distinguish among them. Because the specimen that is now AMNH 606197 bears the Rothschild type label, showing the intent of Hartert to have this specimen serve as the type, I hereby designate it the lectotype of Erythromyias buruensis to avoid possible confusion in interpreting the older literature. Paralectotypes are AMNH 606198–606202.