Rhipidura atra Salvadori, 1876

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 : 224

Rhipidura atra Salvadori

Rhipidura atra Salvadori, 1876 [1875]: 922 (Hatam e Mori).

Now Rhipidura atra atra Salvadori, 1876 . See Hartert, 1920: 498, Watson and Mayr, 1986: 544, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 235.

Syntype: AMNH 651729, adult male, collected at Hatam (5 Atam on label), Arfak Mountains, Papua Province, Indonesia, on 28 June 1875, by Bruijn’s hunters. From Salvadori’s Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1920: 498) was careful to call this specimen a ‘‘cotype’’ (5 syntype), as he noted that all of Salvadori’s specimens were marked ‘‘Typus’’. No type was designated in the original description but the type series was composed of nine specimens. This is specimen ‘‘e’’ of the list in Salvadori (1881: 72). There are four syntypes of R. atra in Genoa (see Arbacco et al., 1979: 227). For the location of Hatam, see map in Mayr and Meyer de Schauensee (1939).