Leucophantes hypoxanthus Salvadori

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 : 241

Leucophantes hypoxanthus Salvadori

Leucophantes hypoxanthus Salvadori, 1876: 920 (Hatam) .

Now Microeca papuana A.B. Meyer, 1875 . See Mayr, 1986d: 561, and Dickinson, 2003: 520.

Syntype: AMNH 604741, adult female, collected at Hatam, Arfak Mountains, Papua Province, Indonesia, on 5 July 1875, by O. Beccari. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Salvadori, in his original description did not designate a type but noted that he had eight specimens collected at Hatam, seven by Beccari and one by Bruijn. Salvadori (1881: 91) later listed under Poecilodryas papuana his specimens, including ‘‘e’’, male, and ‘‘f’’ and ‘‘g’’, females, collected at Hatam on 5 Luglio (July) 1875. Arbocco et al. (1979: 224) listed a male and a female collected at Hatam on 5 July 1875 as two of three syntypes present in Genoa. The above specimen is the third specimen collect- ed on 5 July by Beccari and is marked ‘‘g’’ on the reverse of Beccari’s label, which had also been marked ‘‘Typus nov sp’’. Someone has incorrectly drawn a line through this. This specimen had not previously been included with AMNH types. For the location of Hatam, see map in Mayr and Meyer de Schauensee (1939).