Seicercus montis paulinae Mayr, 1944

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 : 69

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/313.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12777360
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scientific name	Seicercus montis paulinae Mayr
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Seicercus montis paulinae Mayr View in CoL

Seicercus montis paulinae Mayr, 1944a: 159 View in CoL (Mt. Mutis (1800 meters), Timor).

Now Seicercus montis paulinae Mayr, 1944 View in CoL . See White and Bruce, 1986: 349, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 679.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 308004 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Mount Mutis , 1800 m, 04.35S, 124.15E (Times Atlas), Timor Island, Indonesia, on 26 February 1932, by Georg Stein (no. 3328). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. Paratypes are AMNH 345936–345951, all collected on Mt. Mutis.

The expedition of Georg and Clara Stein to Timor was supported by J. Sterling Rockefeller, with the cooperation of Erwin Stresemann in Berlin. After World War II, in January 1956, a portion of the collection was sent to ZMB. The following paratypes of paulinae were among those specimens: AMNH 345937 About AMNH , 345940 About AMNH , 345946 About AMNH , 345947 About AMNH , and 345950. I did not find AMNH 345944, and there is no indication in the AMNH catalog of its whereabouts. It is not in ZMB (S. Frahnert, personal commun.). Unfortunately , Stein was unable to publish his field notes for his Timor collection as he had done for his collection from the Weyland Mountains in New Guinea ; his home and all of his notebooks were destroyed during World War II ( Stresemann, 1967: 186–187).