Chlorura hyperythra microrhyncha Stresemann Erythrura hyperythra ernstmayri

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 110

Chlorura hyperythra microrhyncha Stresemann

Chlorura hyperythra microrhyncha Stresemann, 1931: 12 (Latimodjong-Gegbirge 1800 m).

Now Erythrura hyperythra microrhyncha ( Stresemann, 1931) . See Stresemann, 1940: 41; Mayr et al., 1968: 362; White and Bruce, 1986: 420–421; Dickinson, 2003: 733; and Payne, 2010: 346.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 293396 , adult male, collected on the western slope of the Latimojong (5 Latimodjong) Mountains , 1800 m, Sulawesi Island, Indonesia, on 23 March 1930, on the Heinrich Expedition 1930 (no. 1131).

COMMENTS: In the original description, Stresemann designated as type the specimen bearing Gerd Heinrich’s no. 1131. He did not enumerate his paratypes, giving wing measurements for an unknown number of males and females. The Heinrich Expedition was jointly sponsored by ZMB and Leonard C. Sanford for AMNH ( Stresemann, 1931: 7) ; types were to come to AMNH and the remainder of the collection was divided between the two institutions. Stresemann (1940: 41) mentioned 16 specimens in ZMB, but this is apparently the number of specimens of microrhyncha that remained in ZMB, as there are 25 specimens from the type locality in AMNH bearing an ‘‘S’’ within a circle, indicating that they were Sanford’s share. It is not clear whether Stresemann studied the entire collection or only the part that remained in Berlin .

Stresemann (1939: 308–310) summarized Heinrich’s 1930–1932 expeditions to Sulawesi.

[ Erythrura hyperythra ernstmayri Stresemann]

Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Stresemann (1938: 45) described this subspecies, based on a single adult male, collected on Wawa Karaeng, 2000m, Sulawesi, on 18 September 1931, by Gerd Heinrich (no. 5579). Under the funding agreement for this expedition (see above), all types were to come to AMNH. Probably because of the outbreak of World War II, this type never reached AMNH. It is now ZMB 34.199 1 (S. Frahnert, personal commun.).