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.
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2008
2008-07-02
2008
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journal article
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Acrocephalus stentoreus sumbae
Hartert
Acrocephalus stentoreus sumbae
Hartert, 1924c: 21
(Nangamessi Bucht, nicht weit von Waingapu).
Now
Acrocephalus stentoreus sumbae
Hartert, 1924
. See
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 699
.
LECTOTYPE
:
AMNH 594489
, adult female, collected near
Waingapu
,
09.40S
,
120.16E
(Times Atlas), on
Nangawesi
(
5
Nangamessi)
Bay
,
Sumba Island
,
Lesser Sunda Islands
,
Indonesia
, in
February 1896
, by William Doherty. From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: Doherty collected only
two female
specimens of this form (see the original description and
Hartert, 1896f: 580
, where they are listed as
Acrocephalus australis
). A Rothschild type label is tied only on AMNH 594489, establishing Hartert’s intent for that specimen to be the type, but neither in his original description nor in his list of types in the Rothschild Collection (
Hartert, 1928: 214
) did he distinguish between the
two specimens
. In order to confirm Hartert’s intent, I hereby designate AMNH 594489 the
lectotype
of
Acrocephalus stentoreus sumbae
, thereby removing any ambiguity in the older literature. AMNH 594490 becomes the
paralectotype
.
White and Bruce (1986: 344)
considered
sumbae
to be a synonym of
A. stentoreus celebensis
, and they provided a discussion.