Muscicapula nigrorum Whitehead

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 : 91

Muscicapula nigrorum Whitehead

Muscicapula nigrorum Whitehead, 1897: 43 (Canloan Volcano, 6000 ft., Central Negros, Philippines).

Now Ficedula hyperythra nigrorum ( Whitehead, 1897) . See Dickinson et al., 1991: 349.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 605948 , adult male, collected on Canlaon (5 Canloan) Volcano , 6000 ft, 10.25N, 123.08E ( Dickinson et al., 1991: 417), Negros Island , Philippines, on 23 April 1896, by John Whitehead (no. B.457). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Whitehead described both male and female, but he did not designate a type or say how many specimens he examined, nor did he later ( Whitehead, 1899: 106) add further information on the size of his type series. Hartert (1920: 493) designated the specimen bearing Whitehead’s number B.457 the lectotype. Paralectotypes in AMNH are AMNH 605947, male, and AMNH 605949, female, both collected on 24 April 1896.