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 Oriolus finschi Hartert Oriolus finschi Hartert, 1904b: 219 (Wetter) . Now Oriolus melanotis finschi Hartert, 1904 . See Hartert, 1919: 133 ; Greenway, 1962: 123 ; Mees, 1965: 194 ; White and Bruce, 1986: 318 ; Dickinson et al., 2004a: 67 ; and Walther and Jones, 2008: 717 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 671111 , adult male, collected on Wetar (= Wetter) Island, 07.48S , 126.18E ( White and Bruce, 1986: 491 ), Lesser Sunda Islands , Indonesia , on 16 April 1901 , by Heinrich Kühn (no. 5604A). From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Hartert gave Kühn’s number of the holotype in the original description and listed five males and five females that he had collected. The following seven paratypes came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, all collected by Kühn on Wetar in 1902: AMNH 671112 (Kühn no. 5601), AMNH 671113 (5600), males, 29 September ; AMNH 671114 (5599), male, 4 October, AMNH 671115 (5603), female, 5 October ; AMNH 671116 (–), AMNH 671117 (5754), females, 22 October ; AMNH 671118 (–), [male], 20 October. The two paratypes that did not come to AMNH were females without Kühn numbers . Hartert (1919: 133) included finschi as a subspecies of O. striatus ; Greenway (1962: 123) and many other authors included it in viridifuscus . However, Mees (1965: 194) pointed out that O. melanotis Bonaparte, 1850 , predated Heine’s name and is the valid name for what had been called O. viridifuscus (Heine, 1859) . Authors since then have used O. melanotis for the species.