Rene Mauge's ornithological collections from Kupang Bay, West-Timor, Indonesia, August-November 1801, with special regard to type-specimens Author Jansen, Justin J. F. J. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands justin.jansen@gmail.com text Zoosystematics and Evolution 2017 2017-11-16 93 2 467 492 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.93.19964 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.93.19964 1860-0743-2-467 BF2CF2025D134B07AAC2274E93DA7527 FF9CE05ECF612430340FFFA1B62A5A07 1139700 Ardea australis Cuvier Ardea australis Cuvier, 1831, in Lesson, Traite d'Orn . 8: 572 (no locality). Ixobrychus flavicollis australis (Cuvier 1831). See Peters 1931 : 123 and Voisin and Voisin 1996 : 605. - Now. Type materials. HOLOTYPE: MNHN-ZO-MO-1995-244 [MNHN A.C. 13960], immature, collected near Kupang Bay, Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, West-Timor ( 10°11'0"S ; 123°35'0"E ), between 22 August and 13 November 1801, by Rene Mauge . Pedestal underside: Exp. Baudin / Ardea flavicollis (Lath.) / A. australis (Cuv.) type / Exp Baudin / 13960 N.C. No 219 . Pedestal label: no longer present. Comments. Lesson did not mention the number of specimens examined from the Baudin expedition. The MNHN specimen was catalogued around 1854 (MNHN Laboratory, ZMO-GalOis 5) and represented the sole specimen in the MNHN for a long time. It was followed by two birds collected on Java by Labillardiere between 1794-1796 and donated to the museum in 1817. The latter two birds are the syntypes of Ardea bilineata Cuvier in Lesson, 1831 ( Voisin and Voisin 1996 : 604, who designated MNHN-ZO-MO1992-242 as the lectotype). The type locality is lacking and added as: West-Timor, near Kupang Bay (article 76a.2.A (ICZN 1999)). Cuvier named this species Ardea australis or 'southern' ( Jobling 2017 ).