Edolisoma melan goodsoni Mathews

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 : 70

Edolisoma melan goodsoni Mathews

Edolisoma melan goodsoni Mathews, 1928: 373 (Trangan Island, in the Aru Group).

Now Coracina melas goodsoni ( Mathews, 1928) . See

Rand and Gilliard, 1967: 319.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 562240 , adult female, collected on Trangan Island , Aru Islands , 06°10′S, 134°20′E ( Seltzer, 1962: 105), West Papua, Indonesia, on 21 September 1900 by Heinrich Kühn (no. 2572). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, the type was said to be a female collected on 21 September 1900 on Trangan Island and in the Rothschild Collection. This is the only Kühn specimen from Trangan Island that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. It was never in the Mathews Collection.