Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae
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LeCroy, Mary
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Chlorura borneensis
Sharpe
Chlorura borneensis
Sharpe, 1889a: 424
(Kina Balu).
Now
Erythrura hyperythra borneensis
(Sharpe, 1889)
. See Smythies, 2000: 610–611;
Dickinson, 2003: 733
; and
Payne, 2010: 346
.
LECTOTYPE
:
AMNH 721989
, adult male, collected on
Kinabalu
,
06.03N
,
116.32E
(Times atlas),
Sabah
,
Malaysia
, on
5 April 1887
, by
John Whitehead
(no. 1312).
From
the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: When R. Bowdler
Sharpe (1887: 453)
reported on the specimens collected by John Whitehead on his first expedition to Kinabalu, he identified the two specimens collected, a male and a female, as
Chlorura hyperythra
. Later, Whitehead (in
Sharpe, 1889b: 435
) confirmed that he collected only two specimens of this form on his first expedition.
Sharpe (1889a: 424)
referred back to the earlier paper and named them
Chlorura borneensis
, making them
syntypes
in the absence of any type designation. The labels of both of these specimens are marked ‘‘descr. R.B.S[harpe],’’ and they both bear Rothschild type labels, the male marked ‘‘Type s of Borneensis’’ and the female marked ‘‘Type
♀
of Borneensis.’’
Hartert (1919a: 142)
listed as the type of
C. borneensis
the male specimen bearing Whitehead’s field no. 1312, thereby designating it the
lectotype
. The female,
AMNH 721990
, collected on Kinabalu on
5 April 1887
by Whitehead (no. 1313) thus becomes the
paralectotype
. Both specimens remain in the type collection in AMNH because they bear Rothschild type labels, but an additional label has been added to the female specimen to indicate that it is the
paralectotype
.
Sharpe reported on Whitehead’s expeditions to Kinabalu, but not all of the specimens went to BMNH; Rothschild bought many of his specimens from Whitehead and from his family, shortly after Whitehead’s death. (Records of these purchases were kindly supplied by Archives, Rothschild Correspondence, BMNH, but there are no lists of specimens purchased.)