Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:
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Dendrophila corallipes
Sharpe
Dendrophila corallipes
Sharpe, 1888b: 479
(Mountain of Kina Balu).
Now
Sitta frontalis corallipes
(Sharpe, 1888)
.
See
Dickinson et al., 2006b: 293
, and
Harrap, 2008b: 142–143
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 684092
, adult female, collected on
Mt. Kinabalu
,
3000 ft
,
06.03N
,
116.32E
(Times Atlas),
Sabah
,
Malaysia
, on
26 February 1887
, by
John Whitehead
(no. 1030).
From
the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: No
type
was designated in the description of this form nor was the number of specimens listed, but
Sharpe (1888b: 478)
had before him Whitehead’s entire 1887 collection made during his second ascent of Kinabalu and based his descriptions on those specimens. In his later account of Whitehead’s four years of travels in northern Borneo (
Sharpe, 1889
), he again did not name a
type
for
corallipes
, but listed a total of
five specimens
, only one of which was collected in 1887. The data on AMNH 684092 match the data listed by
Sharpe (1889: 420)
as his specimen ‘‘d,’’ and the reverse of Whitehead’s label is marked ‘‘
Type
RBS,’’ indicating that it was the specimen chosen, but not published, by Sharpe as the
type
.
Hartert (1920a: 440)
listed this specimen as the
type
, adding Whitehead’s no. 1030.