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
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Hypothymis azurea symmixta
Stresemann
Hypothymis azurea symmixta
Stresemann, 1913a: 294
(Alor)
.
Now
Hypothymis azurea prophata
Oberholser, 1911
. See
White and Bruce, 1986: 364
, and del
Hoyo et al., 2006: 280–281
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 649920
, adult male, collected on
Alor Island
,
08.15S
,
124.45E
(
White and Bruce, 1986: 490
),
Lesser Sunda Islands
,
Indonesia
, in
March
, 1897, by Alfred Everett. From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
:
In
the original description,
Stresemann
designated as the type a specimen in the
Rothschild Collection
collected on
Alor
in
March 1897
.
This
is the only
Alor
specimen collected in
March. His
paratypes
included
6 specimens
in
BMNH
(marked with asterisks) and 17, including the
holotype
, in the
Rothschild Collection
, for which he gave measurements.
There
are
16 paratypes
at
AMNH
, all of which would have been available to
Stresemann
when he described
symmixta
.
The
number of specimens from each island and their sex do not exactly correlate with the number of measurements given by
Stresemann. In
the following list of
paratypes
, the
AMNH
number and the sex as given on the label are followed by the number given by Stresemann in brackets.
Lombok Island
,
three males
,
AMNH 649904–649906
, female,
AMNH 649907
[
five males
]
;
Sumbawa Island
,,
six males
,
AMNH 649908–649913
,
three females
, 649914–649916 [
six males
,
three females
]
;
Flores Island
,,
two males
,
AMNH 649917
and 649918 [
1 male
]
;
Alor Island
,
AMNH 649919
, collected in
April 1897
[
one male
plus the
holotype
].
Bali
specimens are not included among the
paratypes
because
Stresemann
considered the
Bali
population to be transitional between
H. a. symmixta
and
H. a. prophata
and questioned its subspecific determination
.