Mochthopoeus amoenus Hartert

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 67

Mochthopoeus amoenus Hartert

Mochthopoeus amoenus Hartert, 1929: 13 (Kulambangra) .

Now Phylloscopus amoenus ( Hartert, 1929) . See Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 391.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 220110 , adult male, collected on Kolombangara ( 5 Kulambangra) Island, 08.00S, 157.10E (Times Atlas), Solomon Islands, on 11 October 1927, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 28508).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. Two adult males and a female? had been sent to Hartert for study. As described under Phylloscopus trivirgatus becki , the specimens that Hartert examined were labeled with the new name in his characteristic hand and ink. The two paratypes are: AMNH 220111 , adult male, collected on 12 October 1927 ; and AMNH 220112 , female?, collected on 13 (not 12) October 1927. Two additional specimens, AMNH 225199 and 225200, cataloged later and not sent to Hartert, are not paratypes .

The genus Mochthopoeus was also described here ( Hartert, 1929: 12), with Mochthopoeus amoenus the type species. Mayr (1944b: 4–5) gave reasons for not recognizing Mochthopoeus and noted that the wing measurements of 88.5–90 mm, given by Hartert in the original description, should have been 58–59.5 mm.