Philemon timoriensis pallidiceps Hellmayr

Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348), pp. 1-193 : 123

Philemon timoriensis pallidiceps Hellmayr

Philemon timoriensis pallidiceps Hellmayr, 1914: 47 (Wetter) .

Now Philemon buceroides buceroides (Swainson, 1838) . See Hellmayr, 1916: 101, Salomonsen, 1967: 408, White and Bruce, 1986: 398, and Higgins et al., 2008: 680–681.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 696911 , adult male, collected on Wetar (5 Wetter) Island, 07.48S, 126.18E ( White and Bruce, 1986: 491), Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, on 14 September 1902, by Heinrich Kühn (no. 5432). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hellmayr cited Kühn’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description and noted that he had examined six adult male and two adult female specimens from Wetar in the Rothschild Collection. The seven paratypes are: AMNH 696909, 696910, 696912–696916. AMNH 294770, collected by Kühn on Wetar in October 1902, was purchased in 1936 from the dealer W.F. Rosenberg by L.C. Sanford for AMNH and was not in the Rothschild Collection.

Hellmayr (1916: 101) noted that the type locality of Philedon buceroides Swainson, 1838 , was Timor, not Australia; thus, P. timoriensis (Müller, 1842) is a synonym of P. buceroides .