Oenanthe pyrrhonota Vieillot

Jansen, Justin J. F. J., 2017, Rene Mauge's ornithological collections from Kupang Bay, West-Timor, Indonesia, August-November 1801, with special regard to type-specimens, Zoosystematics and Evolution 93 (2), pp. 467-492 : 477

Oenanthe pyrrhonota Vieillot

Oenanthe pyrrhonota Vieillot, 1818, Nouv. Dict. Nat. éd. 21: 428 (Nouvelle Hollande).

Saxicola caprata pyrrhonota (Vieillot, 1818). See Pucheran 1855: 347 and Deignan and Ripley 1964: 113. - Now.

Type materials.

‘type’ (lost). Specimen MNHN A.C. 9128 is documented in: ZMO-GalOis 3: 9128 / Pratincola caprata , Gm / Timor? / Voy. aux Terre Austral. an 11. S. 1977 no 1. Catalogue des Merles: 784 / 9128 Pratincola caprata / Timor / Exp. Baudin / an 11. S / 1977 no 1. Exit from the MNHN collection in 1977 (no 1) part of 387 specimens that were destroyed.

Comments.

A single bird was selected and described by Vieillot; a female. However, this bird is no longer present. Unknown if the bird, that ended up in NMS, was this specific female (Dufresne Ms 1818, 74: Oenanthe caprata , Gm., Le traquet del Isle de Luzon, Buff. 235.1., Terres Australes), however, the annotation in Dufresne 1818 ' destroyed in 1892 ' confirms that the specimen is no longer present. Only a male collected at the Baudin expedition still resides in the MNHN (MNHN A.C. 9127). The male was the only specimen in the collection until another arrived with La Favorite in 1844 (MNHN Laboratory, ZMO-GalOis 3). Vieillot named this species Oenanthe pyrrhonota or ‘flame-coloured/red’ ( Jobling 2017). A solution for this special case, should be found in the future (e.g. type-specimen and type-locality).