Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:
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Pachycephalidae
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Aegithalidae
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Remizidae
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Paridae
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Sittidae
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Neosittidae
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Certhiidae
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Rhabdornithidae
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Climacteridae
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Dicaeidae
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Pardalotidae
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Nectariniidae, And
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Lecroy, Mary
Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History (lecroy @ amnh. org)
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
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Pachycephala contempta
Hartert
Pachycephala contempta
Hartert, 1898d: 15
(Lord Howe Island).
Now
Pachycephala pectoralis contempta
Hartert, 1898
.
See
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 441–444
, and
Boles, 2007: 421
.
LECTOTYPE
:
AMNH 658048
, [adult male], collected on
Lord Howe Island
, Tasman Sea,
Australia
, purchased from
H.H. Travers. From
the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description. Three adult male specimens [by plumage] collected on Lord Howe Island and purchased from Travers came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection.
Hartert (1920a: 448)
did not further distinguish among the
three specimens
, but AMNH 658048 bears, in addition to the Travers label and a small metal tag with the number 0.1444, a Rothschild type label, indicating that this was the specimen Hartert intended as the type, and it was so cataloged when the Rothschild Collection came to AMNH. In order to confirm Hartert’s intent and prevent misinterpretation of earlier literature, I hereby designate AMNH 658048 the
lectotype
of
Pachycephala contempta
Hartert, 1898
. The
paralectotypes
are
AMNH 658049
and
AMNH 658050
.