Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:
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Lecroy, Mary
Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History (lecroy @ amnh. org)
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Hyloterpe whiteheadi
Sharpe
Hyloterpe whiteheadi
Sharpe, 1888a
(April)
: 198 (
Palawan
).
Now
Pachycephala cinerea plateni
(Blasius, 1888 (1 March)).
See
Dickinson et al., 1991: 361
,
Walters, 2003
, and
Boles, 2007: 415
.
LECTOTYPE
:
AMNH 658452
, adult female, collected at
Tagusao
(
5
Taguso),
08.49N
,
117.53E
(
Dickinson et al., 1991: 426
),
Palawan
Island
,
Philippines
, on
21 July 1887
, by
John Whitehead
(no. 1587).
From
the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Sharpe described the female but did not designate a type or say how many specimens he had.
Whitehead (1890: 47)
said only that it was scarce. Three specimens came to AMNH. AMNH 658452 is the specimen marked ‘‘Type 1587’’ in Sharpe’s hand, and it bears a Rothschild type label.
Hartert (1920a: 446)
added Whitehead’s field number, which would usually serve to designate this specimen the
lectotype
. However, a second female specimen collected on 21 July also bears Whitehead’s number 1587. Whitehead’s numbers are usually reliably unique and in this case, his original field tag is no longer present, so that the number cannot now be checked. As a result, Hartert’s listing does not serve to designate a
lectotype
. However, because AMNH 658452 is the one intended by Sharpe as the type, matches Sharpe’s description, and has a wing that measures
80 mm
, closest to that given for the described bird (
3.15 inches
5
ca.
79 mm
) I hereby designate AMNH 658452 the
lectotype
of
Hyloterpe whiteheadi
. The second female,
paralectotype
AMNH 658453
, is overall browner than the description, particularly on the face and wings and has a wing that measures
83 mm
. A second
paralectotype
is
AMNH 658451
, male, Tagusao,
30 July 1887
, collected by Whitehead (no. 1628).