Lalage karu obscurior Rothschild and 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 : 72

Lalage karu obscurior Rothschild and Hartert

Lalage karu obscurior Rothschild and Hartert, 1917: 16

(Fergusson Island).

Now Lalage leucomela obscurior Rothschild and Hartert, 1917 . See Coates, 1990: 48.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 563983 , adult female, collected on Fergusson Island, 09°35′S, 150°40′E ( Papua New Guinea General Reference Map, 1984), D’Entrecasteaux Islands , Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, on 20 September 1894, by Albert S. Meek. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Said to be a female in the original description, the holotype is the only female collected by Meek on Fergusson. There are two male paratypes: AMNH 563984 , 20 September 1894, Fergusson Island ; and AMNH 563985 , 17 December 1896, Goodenough Island .

Meek’s (1913: 45) base camp on Fergusson Island was at Nadi (= Nade, ca. 09°40′S, 150°43′E) on the south coast.