Edoliosoma dohertyi 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 : 66

Edoliosoma dohertyi Hartert

Edoliosoma dohertyi Hartert, 1896b: 584 (Sumba) .

Now Coracina dohertyi (Hartert, 1896) . See Coates et al., 1997: 403, and Dickinson et al., 2002a: 37.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 562796 , adult male, collected on Sumba Island , 09°16′– 10°20′S, 118°56′– 120°53′E ( Seltzer, 1962: 1842), Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, in February 1896, by William Doherty. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description. Doherty collected two males on Sumba in February 1896, and Hartert’s (1922b: 375) listing of the type was ambiguous as it did not distinguish between the two. However, the above specimen is the one to which he attached the Rothschild type label, and it has been considered the type and included in the AMNH type collection since the Rothschild Collection came to AMNH.

Because Hartert intended that AMNH 652796 be the type and because it has been so considered, I hereby designate it the lectotype to avoid the possibility of confusion in interpreting the older literature. The second male, AMNH 562797, becomes the paralecotype.