Siphia djampeana 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 : 98

Siphia djampeana Hartert

Siphia djampeana Hartert, 1896c: 172 (Djampea) .

Now Cyornis rufigastra djampeanus (Hartert, 1896) . See White and Bruce, 1986: 360, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 156.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 605400 , adult male, collected on Tanahjampea (5 Djampea) Island, 07.05S, 120.42E ( White and Bruce, 1986: 491), Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, in December 1895, by Alfred Everett. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert did not designate a type, saying only that he had a ‘‘good series’’. Hartert (1920: 491) listed as lectotype a male collected on Djampea by Everett in December 1895. There are six such specimens that came to AMNH with the Rothschild collection ; however, AMNH 605400 is the specimen bearing the Rothschild type label, written by Hartert, and Everett’s label is also marked ‘‘Type’’. Because it was Hartert’s intent that this specimen be the type, I hereby designate AMNH 605400 the lectotype of Siphia djampeana to avoid confusion in interpreting the older literature and to remove any ambiguity surrounding the type. The eight paralectotypes are: AMNH 605401–605404 , adult males, AMNH 605405 , immature male, AMNH 605406–605408 , females, all collected on Tanahjampea by Everett in December 1895 .

Watson et al. (1986b: 372) included the species rufigastra in Niltava .