Dendrobiastes hyperythra brunneicauda Stresemann

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 : 88-89

Dendrobiastes hyperythra brunneicauda Stresemann

Dendrobiastes hyperythra brunneicauda Stresemann, 1931b: 81 (Bonthain Peak, 6000 Fuss).

Now Ficedula hyperythra jugosae (Riley, 1921) . See Stresemann, 1940: 80, White and Bruce, 1986: 354–355, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 137.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 605883 , adult female, collected on Gunung Lompobattang (5 Bonthain Peak), 6000 ft, 05.22S, 119.58E (Times Atlas), Sulawesi Island, Indonesia, in October 1895, by Alfred Everett. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Stresemann designated as type a female with the above data in the Rothschild Collection. However, Everett collected two females with exactly the same data. This description was published after the last of Hartert’s lists of Rothschild types, and the specimen does not bear a Rothschild type label. Instead, Stresemann attached a ZMB type label with the ZMB name crossed out. This is undoubtedly the specimen he intended as the type and it has always been so considered. To avoid the possibility of confusion in the future, I hereby designate AMNH 605883 the lectotype of Dendrobiastes hyperythra brunneicauda Stresemann.

In the original description, Stresemann recorded a type series of three males and two females. The paralectotypes are now: AMNH 605884 , female, AMNH 605885 and 605886, males, collected by Everett on Bonthain Peak in October 1885 ; and AMNH 605887 , male, collected by Doherty in August 1896 .

‘‘Bonthain Peak’’ is the peak north of the coastal town of Bantaeng (5 Bonthain), 05.32S, 119.58E (Times Atlas). On the reverse of Everett’s label on the lectotype, the locality ‘‘Tasoso, 4000 ft’’ has been written in pencil. This altitude has been overwritten in ink, on both the back and the front of the label as ‘‘6000 ft’’. Hartert (1896b: 149–150) quoted from Everett’s letters concerning his collecting localities. J.M. Dumas (his assistant) made Tasoso, the highest village in the area, his base camp and collected from there on the second-highest peak of ‘‘Bonthain Peak’’, known as Buah Kraiing. Tasosso (so spelled) is shown on the map in Stresemann (1940) as number 69.