Rhinomyias gularis Sharpe, 1888

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 : 81

Rhinomyias gularis Sharpe

Rhinomyias gularis Sharpe, 1888b: 385 (Kina Balu).

Now Rhinomyias gularis Sharpe, 1888 . See Vaurie, 1952: 27–30, Dickinson et al., 1991: 343, and Smythies, 2000: 556.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 652770 , female, collected on Mount Kinabalu , 06.03N, 116.32E

(Times Atlas), Sabah, Malaysia, on 27 March 1888, by John Whitehead (no. 2323). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Sharpe did not designate a type in the original description, but he did list Whitehead’s numbers (2083 and 2323) of the two specimens that he had. Hartert (1920: 499) listed as type Whitehead’s number 2323, thereby designating it the lectotype. In the original description, Sharpe had referred to this specimen as ‘‘immature’’, but later ( Sharpe and Whitehead, 1889: 201) noted that it only has ‘‘faint traces of dusky mottling on the abdominal feathers and small rufous tips to the greater coverts’’. Whitehead (1893b: 185) routinely sent ahead to Sharpe two specimens of any form that he thought would be new. In this case, Sharpe had only the two specimens when he named gularis , and they comprise the type series. The second specimen also bears a Rothschild type label and is marked ‘‘Type RBS[harpe]’’; however, because Hartert designated number 2323 the lectotype, AMNH 652761 (Whitehead no. 2083) is the paralectotype. It remains with the types because it bears a Rothschild type label, but a label has been added to explain its status.