Rhipidura rufiventris mussaui Hartert, 1924

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 : 222

Rhipidura rufiventris mussaui Hartert

Rhipidura rufiventris mussaui Hartert, 1924b (October): 271 (St. Matthias Island).

Now Rhipidura rufiventris mussai Rothschild and Hartert, 1924 . See Watson and Mayr, 1986: 540, Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 392, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 238.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 651186 , adult male, collected on Mussau Island, 01.30 S, 149.40E ( Papua New Guinea, 1984), St. Matthias Islands , New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, on 11 June 1923, by Albert F. Eichhorn (no. 8540). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: See Rhipidura rufiventris mussai (above). The same holotype was designated and the type series was the same for both mussai and mussaui. Hartert (1928: 221) failed to list the earlier Rothschild and Hartert name in his list of types in the Rothschild Collection.