Pycnonotus prillwitzi 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 : 81

Pycnonotus prillwitzi Hartert

Pycnonotus prillwitzi Hartert, 1902c: 561 (Karangbolong, S. Java).

Now Pycnonotus simplex prillwitzi Hartert, 1902 . See

Hartert, 1922b: 370–371, Dickinson and Dekker,

2002b: 101–102, and Dickinson et al., 2002b: 127.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 568602 , unsexed, collected at Karangbolong , 07°45′S, 109°28′E ( Mees, 1996: 105), Java, Indonesia, in April–May 1901, by Ernst Prillwitz. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In his original description, Hartert (1902c: 561) noted that he had eight skins collected by Prillwitz near Karangbolong, none of them sexed, and said only that the type was from ‘‘Karangbolong, S. Java, Prillwitz coll.’’ As all eight specimens bear the same data, even Hartert’s later (1922b: 370) listing of the ‘‘type’’ is ambiguous. The specimen listed above is the one bearing the Rothschild type label and has been separated from the general collection as the type ever since the Rothschild Collection came to AMNH. Because AMNH 568602 is the specimen intended as the type by Hartert and to avoid possible confusion in interpreting the older literature, I hereby designate it the lectotype. Paralectotypes are AMNH 568603–568609.