Cryptolopha montis inornata Robinson and Kloss

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 : 68

Cryptolopha montis inornata Robinson and Kloss

Cryptolopha montis inornata Robinson and Kloss, 1920: 99 (Bandar Baroe, Deli, N.E. Sumatra).

Now Seicercus montis inornatus ( Robinson and Kloss, 1920) . See van Marle and Voous, 1988: 180, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 679.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 450574, male, and AMNH 450575, female, collected at Bandar Baru, 03.16N, 98.33E (BirdLife International, 2001: 2600), Deli region, northeastern Sumatra Island, Indonesia, on 26 December 1918, by A.F.C.A. van Heyst (nos. 1316 and 1317, respectively). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Robinson and Kloss had only two specimens and designated them types (5 syntypes) in the original description, citing van Heyst’s field numbers. Both of the original labels are marked ‘‘ Cryptolopha montis inornata , R&K, Type’’. Hartert did not list this taxon in any of his lists of types in the Rothschild Collection, and I have found no indication that either specimen has been designated the lectotype, even though only the male bears a Rothschild type label. I have added an AMNH type label to the female and placed it in the AMNH type collection.

Van Heyst (in Robinson and Kloss, 1920: 80) placed Bandar Baroe on the north side of Sumatra, ‘‘on the Medan-Toba road at the foot of Mt. Sibajak, at the entrance to the Tengkeh Pass. Birds collected there come from the north slopes of Mt. Sibajak, at a height of 1,000 –1,400 m’’. Mt. Sibayak (5 Mt. Sibajak) is at 03.15N, 98.30E, Utara Province ( van Marle and Voous, 1988: 215). In the first part of their report on van Heyst’s collection, Robinson and Kloss (1919: map opp. p. 73) presented a map showing van Heyst’s localities. Van Marle and Voous (1988: 42) spelled the collector’s name ‘‘van Heijst’’, but on his field labels he spelled it van Heyst.