Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae
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LeCroy, Mary
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Munia molucca vagans
Meise
Munia molucca vagans
Meise, 1929: 440
(Binongka (Tukang besi-Inseln)).
Now
Lonchura molucca
(Linnaeus, 1766)
. See Mayr, et al., 1968: 375;
White and Bruce, 1986: 422
;
Dickinson, 2003: 734
; and
Payne, 2010: 367
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 721121
, female, collected on
Binongka
(5 Binungku, as on label) Island,
05.57S
,
124.02E
(
White and Bruce, 1986: 490
),
Tukangbesi Islands
,
Indonesia
, on
12 December 1901
, by
Heinrich Kühn
(no. 4243).
From
the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS:
In
the original description,
Meise
gave
Kühn’s
unique field number of the
holotype
and noted that he had studied about 10
additional specimens
from the
Tukangbesi Islands
in the
Rothschild Collection. The
following eight
paratypes
came to
AMNH
with the
Rothschild Collection
:
Tomia Island
,
AMNH 721117
, male
;
Wantjee Island
,
AMNH 721118
, female
;
Binongka Island
,
AMNH 721119
,
721120
,
721122– 721124
, two males, three females
;
Kalidupa Island
,
AMNH 721125
, female, all collected in
December 1901
and
January 1902
by
Kühn
.
Most recent authors have considered
L. molucca
monotypic, but Payne recognized two subspecies, with
vagans
a synonym of the nominate subspecies.