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 text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 2014-12-30 2014 393 1 165 journal article 7639 10.1206/885.1 48769858-fe3b-415b-9ac8-3feeb42a9bae 0003-0090 4629954 Dicrurus hottentottus renschi Vaurie Dicrurus hottentottus renschi Vaurie, 1949b: 298 (Tambora Mountain, 3000 feet , Sumbawa). Now Dicrurus densus bimaensis Wallace, 1864 . See Rensch, 1928: 7–8 ; 1931: 589 ; Vaurie, 1962: 151 ; Mees, 1965: 194–195 ; White and Bruce, 1986: 316–317 ; Dickinson, 2003: 492–493 ; Dekker and Quaisser, 2006: 54–55 ; and Rocamora and Yeatman-Berthelot, 2009: 215 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 672302 , adult male, collected on Gunung Tambora , 08.16S , 117.59E (Times Atlas ), Sumbawa Island , Lesser Sunda Islands , Indonesia , in April– May 1896 , by William Doherty. From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: In the original description, Vaurie gave the AMNH number of the holotype and listed one adult male and one adult female as paratypes : G. Tambora, AMNH 672301 , male, AMNH 672303 , female, collected in April–May 1896, collected by Doherty. He listed five additional specimens, but their separate mention ‘‘expressly excludes them from the type series’’ (ICZN, 1999: 77, Art 72.4.6). Wallace (1864: 492) based bimaensis on a name used by Bonaparte, based in turn on a manuscript name of Temminck. These earlier usages of the name did not include a description or other indications that might make the name available under the Code (ICZN, 1999: 16, Art. 12.2). In his introductory material, Wallace (1864: 480–481) mentioned that he had no specimens from Sumbawa, but that Bonaparte had mentioned a few in the Leiden Museum. And in the description, Wallace (1864: 492) listed the range of bimaensis as ‘‘Lombock, Sumbawa (Temm.), and Flores ,’’ thus making the Leiden specimens part of his type series. Mees (1965: 194–195) pointed out that other authors have regarded the Leiden specimens as types of bimaensis and that Vaurie (1949b: 297–298) incorrectly removed Sumbawa from the range of bimaensis when he named renschi . Mees (1965: 195) then named an adult male in Leiden, collected at Bima, Sumbawa, by Forsten in 1842 and labeled as the type by Finsch, as the lectotype of bimaensis , saying that this ‘‘selection of a lectotype overrules the type-locality restrictions made by Rensch and Vaurie, and fixes the type locality of Dicrourus bimaënsis as Bima, Sumbawa.’’ Rensch (1928: 7–8) separated the Lombok population as vicinus , apparently unaware of Wallace’s description. Later, he ( Rensch, 1931: 589 ) restricted the type locality of bimaensis to Flores and included Sumbawa in the range of vicinus . Vaurie (1949b: 297– 298) included both Lombok and Flores in the range of bimaensis , thus synonymizing vicinus with it, and named the Sumbawa population as renschi . Mees (1965: 195) concluded that as a result of his lectotypification, renschi became a synonym of bimaensis and that vicinus became the valid name for the subspecies inhabiting Lombok and Flores , if indeed the populations of these two islands are the same. White and Bruce (1986: 317) included both vicinus and renschi as synonyms of bimaensis , which they included in the species Dicrurus densus , and most recent authors have agreed.