Crateroscelis rufobrunnea Rothschild and 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 : 124-125

Crateroscelis rufobrunnea Rothschild and Hartert

Crateroscelis rufobrunnea Rothschild and Hartert, 1900: 25 (Mt. Maori) .

Now Crateroscelis murina murina (P.L. Sclater, 1858) . See Hartert, 1920: 482, Mayr, 1941: 108, and Dickinson, 2003: 445.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 589340 , unsexed [immature], collected on Mount Moari (5 Mt. Maori), Arfak Mountains, Papua Province, Indonesia, by J.M. Dumas. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert had a single specimen. In the original description they placed ‘‘Mt. Maori, a little west of Humboldt Bay in Dutch New Guinea’’. However, Mayr (1930a: 24) was the first to realize that this locality was in the Arfak Mountains. Moari, 01.21S, 134.13E (Times Atlas), is a coastal locality on Geelvink Bay. It is variously written by Dumas as Mt. Moari, Mt. Maori, Moari Mt., and Maori Mt. and refers to the Arfak Mountains, inland from Moari.

The original Dumas label is missing from this specimen and it bears only a Rothschild type label.