Edolisoma emancipata 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

Edolisoma emancipata Hartert

Edolisoma emancipata Hartert, 1896a: 170 (Djampea) .

Now Coracina tenuirostris emancipata (Hartert, 1896) . See White and Bruce, 1986: 305, Dickinson and Dekker, 2002a: 12, and Dickinson et al., 2002a: 37.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 562500, adult female, AMNH 562501, adult male, AMNH 562502, adult male, AMNH 562503, adult female, AMNH 562504, immature female, and AMNH 562505, adult female, all collected on Tanahdjampea Island, 07°04′S, 120°39′E (Times Atlas), Indonesia, in December 1895, by Alfred Everett. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1896a: 170) did not designate a type, describing both male and female when he named this taxon, and noting that it was ‘‘chiefly characterized in the female’’. Later, he ( Hartert, 1922b: 374) listed male and female ‘‘types’’, evidently meaning the two specimens that came to AMNH bearing Rothschild type labels, but without giving enough additional information to distinguish them from another male and three females collected by Everett on Tanahdjampea at the same time. According to Art. 74.1.1. of the Code (ICZN, 1999), this is not a valid designation of a lectotype because it applies to more than one specimen. Therefore all six specimens must be considered syntypes.