Gerygone kühni 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 : 171

Gerygone kühni Hartert

Gerygone kühni Hartert, 1900a: 15 (Dammer Island).

Now Gerygone dorsalis kuehni Hartert, 1900 . See Meise, 1931: 369, and White and Bruce, 1986: 336.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 607030 , adult male, collected at Kuway , Damar (5 Dammer ) Island, 07.07S, 128.40E ( Times Atlas ), Kepulauan Barat Daja (5 South-West Islands ), Banda Sea , Indonesia, on 13 October 1898, by Heinrich Kühn (no. 1065). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description, but Hartert (1920: 494) listed the above specimen as the type, citing Kühn’s field number, thereby designating it the lectotype. Hartert (1900a: 15) described the male, female, and immature but did not say how many specimens he had. There are now in AMNH nine Damar specimens in addition to the lectotype, collected by Kühn in October–November 1898; all are paralectotypes: AMNH 607031, Kuway; AMNH 607032–607038, Wulur; and AMNH 607039, Batoe Merat. Dekker (2003: 70) listed a ‘‘syntype’’ in RMNH, but because Hartert did not say how many specimens he examined, it is not possible to determine whether that specimen was part of his type series.