Pitohui kirhocephalus proteus Hartert

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 58

Pitohui kirhocephalus proteus Hartert

Pitohui kirhocephalus proteus Hartert, 1932: 469 (Ifaar) .

Now Pitohui kirhocephalus meyeri Rothschild and Hartert, 1903 . See Dickinson, 2003: 490, and Boles, 2007 433–434.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 656327 , adult male, collected at Ifaar , 02.34S, 140.31E ( USBGN, 1982), Sentani Lake , Papua Province, Indonesia, on 22 September 1928, by Ernst Mayr (no. 2513). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: When Hartert reported on New Guinea birds held in the Bogor (5 Buitenzorg) Museum ( MZB), he had retired from Rothschild’s Museum and was living in Berlin but had borrowed specimens from Rothschild, one of which was the holotype of proteus. Hartert gave Mayr’s unique field number of the holotype, but mistakenly published the date of collection as 22 September 1923. This is, indeed, the year that appears on Mayr’s field label, but he was at Ifaar in September 1928 ; the date is correctly written on the printed Rothschild Museum label. Mayr’s collection was divided between Rothschild and AMNH, with a subset sent to MZB ; the Rothschild portion came to AMNH in 1932, but the five paratypes listed individually in the original description are apparently all at MZB .

Additional specimens listed by Hartert (1932: 469) as belonging to his new form are the Tana Mera specimens listed as paratypes of meyeri (above) ; they are also paratypes of proteus: AMNH 656340 , unsexed, N.E. Coast, Tana Mera ; AMNH 656341 , female, Tana Mera, October 1896. Furthermore, Hartert included as paratypes of proteus all of the specimens identified as meyeri that were collected by Mayr at Hollandia (9), in the Cyclops Mountains (3), and at Ifaar (27) in 1928 (see Hartert, 1930b: 60–61) . Paratypes that came to AMNH are: Cyclops Mountains , AMNH 656322 , 294152 , 294153 ; Ifaar , AMNH 656323–656326 , 656328–656335 , 294138– 294147 ; Hollandia, AMNH 656336–656339 , 294148–294151 . Of these AMNH 294146 was sent to the PNGM. Rothschild may have exchanged other specimens before his collection came to AMNH .