Siphia kalaoensis 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 kalaoensis Hartert

Siphia kalaoensis Hartert, 1896c: 172 (Kalao) .

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

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 605409 , adult male, collected on Kalao Island , 07.18S, 120.58E ( White and Bruce, 1986: 490), south of Sulawesi Island, Indonesia, in December 1895, by Alfred Everett. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert did not designate a type in the original description, saying only that he had a ‘‘good series’’ of males and two females from Kalao. Later, Hartert (1920: 491) listed as lectotype a male collected on Kalao by Everett in December 1895. There are five such specimens that came to AMNH with the Rothschild collection ; however, AMNH 605409 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 605409 the lectotype of Siphia kalaoensis to avoid confusion in interpreting the older literature and to remove any ambiguity surrounding the type. The six paralectotypes are: AMNH 605410–605413 , males, AMNH 605414 and 605415, females, all collected on Kalao Island by Everett in December 1895 .

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