Stoparola nigrimentalis Ogilvie-Grant, 2008

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 : 83

Stoparola nigrimentalis Ogilvie-Grant

Stoparola nigrimentalis Ogilvie-Grant, 1894a: 50 (mountains of northern Luzon).

Now Eumyias panayensis nigrimentalis (Ogilvie-Grant, 1894) . See Dickinson et al., 1991: 346.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 605156 , male, collect- ed on 4 February 1894 ; AMNH 605157 , male, collected on 6 January 1894 ; AMNH 605158 , male, collected on 10 January 1894 ; and AMNH 605159 , female, collected on 15 January 1894, in Benguet, 6000 ft, north Luzon , by John Whitehead (nos. 154, 29, 54, and 85, respectively). From the Rothschild Collection .

COMMENTS: Ogilvie-Grant did not designate a type in the original description or say how many specimens he examined, nor was the number of specimens mentioned by Ogilvie-Grant (1894b: 507) or Whitehead (1899: 110), although Ogilvie-Grant (1894b: 501) had all of Whitehead’s Luzon specimens from this trip before him when he named this form. Hartert (1920: 490) noted that there were ‘‘paratypes’’ of this taxon in the Rothschild Collection, again without saying how many. Because no holotype was designated, the Rothschild specimens are syntypes; there are other syntypes in BMNH ( Warren and Harrison, 1971: 382). AMNH 605156 and 605157 have large 1 by 3-inch stiff board labels stamped ‘‘J.W. North Luzon’’ with the other data written by hand and the locality Benguet written as ‘‘Bgt’’. On the reverse, ‘‘ Stoparola nigrimentalis Grant sp. n. ’’, ‘‘Cotype’’, and ‘‘15/–’’ are noted. These were probably offered for sale to Rothschild. Both AMNH 605158 and 605159 have small Whitehead labels with full data. They are not marked ‘‘Cotype’’. Rothschild bought specimens from Whitehead from time to time as well as a large portion of his collection from his family after his death, and there is no record of when Rothschild obtained the specimens.