Criniger ochraceus fowleri Amadon and Harrisson

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 : 88

[ Criniger ochraceus fowleri Amadon and Harrisson ]

In the original description of this taxon ( Amadon and Harrisson, 1956: 516–517), the authors did not indicate the institution in which the type would be deposited; however, because Dean Amadon was the senior author, it seemed possible that it would have been deposited in AMNH. A search of the collections at AMNH did not uncover the type specimen, but Dr. Charles Leh (in litt.), Curator of Natural History in the Sarawak Museum, Kuching, wrote me that the holotype (Harrisson’s no. M155) is in drawer no. 374 of the B.E. Smythies Collection in the Sarawak Museum Zoological Reference Collection. Topotypical paratypes in AMNH are AMNH 648416 and 648417 ; other paratypes are AMNH 648418 , 648419 , and 566128–566134 .

This subspecies was named in honor of James A. Fowler, who, with Charles O’Brien, arranged the AMNH type specimens in taxonomic order and made a card for each taxon, giving specimen data and a reference to each description. This preliminary work has greatly facilitated all subsequent work on the types. At the time, Fowler was a graduate student in the Dept. of Biology at Columbia University.