Muscicapa narcissina jakuschima 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 : 88

Muscicapa narcissina jakuschima Hartert

Muscicapa narcissina jakuschima Hartert, 1907e: 491 ( Insel Jaku (Yaku-no-shima, Yakushima)).

Now Ficedula narcissina owstoni (Bangs, 1901) . See Watson et al., 1986b: 339, Committee for Check-List of Japanese Birds, 2000: 230, and Morioka et al., 2005: 55.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 604990 , adult male, collected on Yakushima , 30.20N, 130.30E ( Morioka et al., 2005: 154), Japan, on 18 October 1904, by Japanese collectors for Alan Owston (no. 1064). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert gave the number ‘‘1064’’ for the holotype in the original description; this is Owston’s unique number for this specimen. Hartert also noted that 8 males and 12 females were collected. There are now in AMNH 20 specimens collected by Owston’s Japanese collectors on Yakushima in September , October, and November 1904, with 11 sexed as males and 9 as females. I consider the 19 specimens, additional to the holotype, to be paratypes: AMNH 604989 and 604991–605008. Hartert apparently counted the males in nonbreeding plumage as females .