Myiagra galeata buruensis Hartert, 1903

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Myiagra galeata buruensis Hartert

Myiagra galeata buruensis Hartert, 1903a: 9 (Kayali, Buru) .

Now Myiagra galeata buruensis Hartert, 1903 . See White and Bruce, 1986: 364, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 316.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 653495 , collected at Kajeli (5 Kayali), 03.25S, 127.07E (Times Atlas), Buru Island, Moluccas, Indonesia, in October 1898, by J.M. Dumas (no. 2391). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert cited Dumas’ unique field number of the holotype in his original description. He did not say how many specimens he examined, but specimens collected at Kajeli by Dumas in October 1898 and by Doherty in March 1897 had been reported on by Hartert (1900c) and were available to him. Kühn also collected on Buru in February 1902, and Rothschild recorded in his partial list of purchases and exchanges having received on 23 June 1902 skins collected by Kühn at Fogi (in February 1902). Those specimens would have also been available to Hartert when he described buruensis . Paratypes are AMNH 653496– 653510. In his list of types in the Rothschild Collection, Hartert (1920: 500) listed the collector of this type as Alfred Everett. Before his death in June 1898 ( Anonymous, 1898: 606), Everett had arranged for Dumas, his field assistant, to collect on Buru ( Hartert, 1900c: 226) and had supplied him with field labels bearing Everett’s name.