Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae
Author
Lecroy, Mary
Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
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Dicrurus hottentottus morotensis
Vaurie
Dicrurus hottentottus morotensis
Vaurie, 1946: 82
(Morotai Island).
Now
Dicrurus bracteatus morotensis
Vaurie, 1946
. See
Vaurie, 1949b: 282–283
;
1962: 148–149
;
White and Bruce, 1986: 314–316
;
Dickinson, 2003: 493
; and
Rocamora and Yeatman-Berthelot, 2009: 216–217
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 672587
, sex?,
Morotai
(Morty, as on label) Island,
02.20N
,
128.25E
(
White and Bruce, 1986: 491
),
Moluccas, Indonesia
, undated, collected by
J.M. Dumas. From
the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Vaurie cited the AMNH number of the
holotype
and noted that he had a second specimen. The
paratype
is:
AMNH 672586
, sex?, Morotai Island, undated, collected by Dumas. Dumas is known to have collected on Morotai in late 1898 (
LeCroy and Jansen, 2011: 176–177
).