Cryptolopha montis Sharpe

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 Sharpe

Cryptolopha montis Sharpe, 1887: 442 (Kina Balu). Now Seicercus montis montis ( Sharpe, 1887) . See

Smythies, 2000: 530.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 450567 , adult male, collected on Mount Kinabalu , 4000 ft, 06.03N, 116.32E (Times Atlas), Sabah, Malaysia, on 25 February 1887, by John Whitehead (no. 1017). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description. Whitehead (in Sharpe and Whitehead, 1889: 204) noted ‘‘I first met this little Flycatcher at 4000 feet, on my first expedition [in 1887] to Kina Balu, when I procured a single specimen.’’ Thus, the above specimen is the holotype. It is marked ‘‘Type RBS’’ and bears a Rothschild type label.