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
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Rhinomyias gularis
Sharpe
Rhinomyias gularis
Sharpe, 1888b: 385
(
Kina
Balu).
Now
Rhinomyias gularis
Sharpe, 1888
. See
Vaurie, 1952: 27–30
,
Dickinson et al., 1991: 343
, and
Smythies, 2000: 556
.
LECTOTYPE
:
AMNH 652770
, female, collected on
Mount Kinabalu
,
06.03N
,
116.32E
(Times Atlas),
Sabah
,
Malaysia
, on
27 March 1888
, by John Whitehead (no. 2323). From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: Sharpe did not designate a type in the original description, but he did list Whitehead’s numbers (2083 and 2323) of the
two specimens
that he had.
Hartert (1920: 499)
listed as type Whitehead’s number 2323, thereby designating it the
lectotype
. In the original description, Sharpe had referred to this specimen as ‘‘immature’’, but later (
Sharpe and Whitehead, 1889: 201
) noted that it only has ‘‘faint traces of dusky mottling on the abdominal feathers and small rufous tips to the greater coverts’’.
Whitehead (1893b: 185)
routinely sent ahead to Sharpe
two specimens
of any form that he thought would be new. In this case, Sharpe had only the
two specimens
when he named
gularis
, and they comprise the type series. The second specimen also bears a Rothschild type label and is marked ‘‘Type RBS[harpe]’’; however, because Hartert designated number 2323 the
lectotype
, AMNH 652761 (Whitehead no. 2083) is the
paralectotype
. It remains with the types because it bears a Rothschild type label, but a label has been added to explain its status.