Graucalus floris alfredianus Hartert

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 57

Graucalus floris alfredianus Hartert

Graucalus floris alfredianus Hartert, 1898a: 458 (Alor) .

Now Coracina personata alfrediana (Hartert, 1898) . See White and Bruce, 1986: 301, Dickinson and Dekker, 2002a: 10, and Dickinson et al., 2002a: 34.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 561113 , adult male, collected on Alor Island , Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, in May 1897, by Alfred Everett. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1898a: 458) had ‘‘half a dozen specimens from Alor’’ when he named this taxon, but did not designate a type. Five came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Hartert (1922b: 371) designated a male collected in May 1897 as the lectotype; the above male is the only one collected in May. A second male, AMNH 561114, collected in April 1897, and three females, AMNH 561115–561117, collected in May 1897, are paralectotypes.

Hartert (1898a: 455) noted that Everett ‘‘collected chiefly in the eastern end of the island (Irána), where there was a small river’’ and that he had not been able to collect on the 6000­ foot mountain that is on the eastern end, due to a severe injury to his leg.