Microeca oscillans 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 : 79

Microeca oscillans Hartert

Microeca oscillans Hartert, 1897b: 170 (3000– 3500 feet in South Flores).

Now Rhinomyias oscillans oscillans (Hartert, 1897) . See Vaurie, 1952: 15–16, White and Bruce, 1986: 352–353, and Mees, 2006: 164–165.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 604536 , adult male, collected on southern Flores Island, ca. 3500 ft, Indonesia, in November 1896, by Alfred Everett. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert did not designate a type, but gave measurements for five males and one female; later, he ( Hartert, 1897d: 524) further commented on the species, but again did not designate a type. Furthermore, his listing of a male ( Hartert, 1920: 490) does not serve to designate a lectotype, as he did not list a date. It was his intent to nominate the specimen now AMNH 604536 the type, as it bears the Rothschild type label. Because it has been considered the type and to avoid possible confusion in the future, I hereby designate AMNH 604536 the lectotype of Microeca oscillans . It is the only male now in AMNH collected in November. Of the five paralectotypes, only three came to AMNH: AMNH 604537, female, November; and AMNH 604538 and 604539, males, October, all collected in 1896 in southern Flores by Everett.

Hartert (1897d: 513) noted that Everett had his base at Nanga Ramau or Nanga Roma, in southern Flores, and quoted Everett’s description of the country in which he collected. Mees (2006: 12) gave other spellings for this locality.