Gerygone modiglianii Salvadori

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 : 175

Gerygone modiglianii Salvadori

Gerygone modiglianii Salvadori, 1891: 52 (Balige and Si Rambe˙).

Now Gerygone sulphurea sulphurea Wallace, 1864 . See Meise, 1931: 371, Mayr, 1986b: 451, and van Marle and Voous, 1988: 179.

Syntype: AMNH 607076, adult unsexed, collected at Balige, 02.20N, 99.04E ( van Marle and Voous, 1988: 210), Sumatra Island, Indonesia, on 2 (not 21) November 1890, by Elio Modigliani (no. 201). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Salvadori’s description was based on five specimens collected at Balige and Si Rambe˙, Sumatra. The above specimen is Salvadori’s specimen ‘‘d’’ and bears Modigliani’s number ‘‘201’’. There are also two syntypes in Genoa ( Arbocco et al., 1979: 223).