Machaerirhynchus nigripectus saturatus Rothschild and 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 : 217

Machaerirhynchus nigripectus saturatus Rothschild and Hartert

Machaerirhynchus nigripectus saturatus Rothschild and Hartert, 1913: 498 (Mt. Goliath) .

Now Machaerirhynchus nigripectus saturatus Rothschild and Hartert, 1913 . See del Hoyo et al., 2006: 325.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 653640 , adult female, collected on Mount Goliath , 04.40S 139.52E ( USBGN, 1982a), Papua Province, Indonesia, on 2 February 1911, by Albert S. Meek (no. 5276). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Rothschild and Hartert had a type series of four males and six females but did not designate a type. Later, Hartert (1920: 501) listed as the type of M. n. saturatus the specimen bearing Meek’s number 5276, thereby designating it the lectotype. Paralectotypes, all collected by Meek on Mt. Goliath or the upper Eilanden River in January and February 1911, are: AMNH 653635 (Meek’s no. 5238), 653636 (5227), 653637 (5130), 653638 (5184), 653639 (5424), 653641 (5277), 653642 (5295), 653643 (5407), and 653644 (5498).

RHIPIDURIDAE