Amblyornis flavifrons Rothschild, 1895

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 84

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/885.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4612396

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Amblyornis flavifrons Rothschild
status

 

Amblyornis flavifrons Rothschild View in CoL View at ENA

Amblyornis flavifrons Rothschild, 1895a: 480 View in CoL (Dutch New Guinea).

Now Amblyornis flavifrons Rothschild, 1895 View in CoL . See Hartert, 1919: 127; Gilliard, 1969: 316–318; Diamond, 1982, 1985; Frith and Frith, 2004: 297–298; Beehler, 2006; Beehler and Prawiradilaga, 2010; and Frith and Frith, 2009a: 396.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 679120 About AMNH , adult male, collected at an unknown locality in what was then Dutch New Guinea, purchased from van Renesse van Duivenbode. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: When the original description was written, Rothschild had a single specimen. (The head was illustrated in color in Rothschild and Hartert [(1896, 3: pl. 1, figs. 3 and 4)]. This specimen on which the description was based is the holotype. There was, however, an added footnote to the original description explaining that after the description went to press, Rothschild had received a second specimen. This specimen would be a paratype of A. flavifrons . Hartert (1919: 127) noted that by 1919 the Rothschild Collection had three male specimens. The third specimen has no type standing.The holotype and paratype, AMNH 679121 About AMNH , are in AMNH; the third is in BMNH as part of the Rothschild Bequest, no. 1939.12.9.13.

On AMNH 679121, someone whose handwriting I don’t recognize has written in red ink: ‘‘Typical’’ and ‘‘Co-Type’’ and it was cataloged as a cotype when it came to AMNH. Someone else has also noted on the label ‘‘not cotype,’’ and this is correct if the term cotype is being used in the sense of a ‘‘ syntype,’’ but cotype also has been used at times in the sense of ‘‘paratype’’ in modern terminology. This confusion of usage is why the ICZN (1999: 80 (Recommendation 73E), 119) does not recognize the term cotype.

A note on the label of AMNH 679121 reads: ‘‘This specimen is figured in Sharpe’s Monograph of the Paradiseidae’’ dated ‘‘25/ 6.97.’’ This refers to Sharpe (1898, part 8, plate unnumbered, text page unnumbered). Sharpe, in his monograph, said: ‘‘The lower figure represents the typical example of A. flavifrons of the natural size.’’ This statement, and ‘‘Typical’’ and ‘‘Co-type’’ on the label leads me to believe that the plate is of Rothschild’s second specimen and the paratype of the name. The third specimen, in BMNH, bears no annotation (R. Prŷs-Jones, personal commun.).

The rediscovery of this species in the Foja Mountains, Papua Province, Indonesia, is one of the most exciting ornithological events of recent years. For information concerning its rediscovery, see Diamond (1982, 1985), Beehler (2006), and Beehler and Prawiradilaga (2010).

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Ptilonorhynchidae

Genus

Amblyornis

Loc

Amblyornis flavifrons Rothschild

Lecroy, Mary 2014
2014
Loc

Amblyornis flavifrons

Frith, C. B. & D. W. Frith 2009: 396
Frith, C. B. & D. W. Frith 2004: 297
Gilliard, E. T. 1969: 316
Hartert, E. 1919: 127
1919
Loc

Amblyornis flavifrons

Rothschild, W. 1895: 480
1895
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