Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae
Author
LeCroy, M.
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2008
2008-07-02
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/313.1
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Siphia erithacus
Sharpe
Siphia erithacus
Sharpe, 1888a: 199
(neighbourhood of
Puerto Princesa
,
Palawan
).
Now
Ficedula platenae
(
Blasius, 1888
)
. See
Dickinson et al., 1991: 350
.
LECTOTYPE
:
AMNH 605521
, adult male, collected at
Tagusao
(
5
Taguso, on label),
08.49N
,
117.53E
(
Dickinson et al., 1991: 426
),
Palawan
Island
,
Philippines
, on
26 June 1887
, by
John Whitehead
(no. 1438).
COMMENTS
: Sharpe did not designate a type in the original description or say how many specimens he had; however, he described male and female.
Whitehead (1890: 48)
, in his report on this collection, also did not say how many specimens he collected.
Hartert (1920: 492)
listed as type of
erithacus
Whitehead’s specimen no 1438, thereby designating it the
lectotype
. There are
four paralectotypes
in AMNH, all from Tagusao: males, AMNH 605522 and 605523; immature male, AMNH 605524; and female, AMNH 605525.
Blasius (1888: 372)
noted that his name
Siphia platenae
was published in
March 1888
, whereas Sharpe’s
S. erithacus
was published in
April 1888
; the priority of Blasius’ name was confirmed by
Rand
(1955: 211)
.