Cryptolopha montis floris 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 : 69

Cryptolopha montis floris Hartert

Cryptolopha montis floris Hartert, 1897b: 171 (South Flores).

Now Seicercus montis floris (Hartert, 1897) . See White and Bruce, 1986: 349, and Mees, 2006: 161–162.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 450579 , adult male, collected on south Flores, above 3500 ft, in November 1896, by native collectors for Alfred Everett. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description, but Hartert noted that he had a ‘‘number of skins’’. He ( Hartert, 1897d: 524) provided no additional information about the specimens when he reported on the entire collection, but did note that Everett’s collectors went inland from ‘‘Nanga Ramau’’ on the south coast into the mountains that rise to about 5000 ft near the sea. See also Mees (2006: 12) with regard to this locality.

Nine specimens of Cryptolopha montis floris collected by Everett on south Flores came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Hartert (1920: 501) listed as type a male collected above 3500 ft in November 1896. There are four such males. AMNH 450579 bears the Rothschild type label, indicating that this is the specimen that Hartert intended as the type, and it is so cataloged at AMNH. In order to prevent possible confusion in the future, I hereby designate AMNH 450579 the lectotype of Cryptolopha montis floris . Paralectotypes are AMNH 450577 and 450578, males collected in October 1896; AMNH 450580–450582, males collected in November 1896; AMNH 450583 and 450584, females collected in October 1896; and AMNH 450585, unsexed specimen collected in November 1896.