Rhipidura rufiventris pallidiceps Hartert, 1904

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 : 218-219

Rhipidura rufiventris pallidiceps Hartert

Rhipidura rufiventris pallidiceps Hartert, 1904a: 205 (Wetter) .

Now Rhipidura rufiventris pallidiceps Hartert, 1904 . See White and Bruce, 1986: 373–375, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 238.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 650974 , adult male, collected on Wetar (5 Wetter) Island, 07.48S, 126.18E ( White and Bruce, 1986: 491), Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, on 16 September 1902, by Heinrich Kühn (no. 5511). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert gave Kühn’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description. He listed his type series as two males (in addition to the holotype), four females, and one unsexed specimen, also appending Kühn’s field numbers. Paratypes, all collected on Wetar in September and October 1902, are: males, AMNH 650975 (Kühn no. 5728) and 650976 (5648) ; females, AMNH 650977 (5726), 650978 (5512), 650979 (5647), and 650980 (5510) ; and unsexed, AMNH 650981 (5513) .