L Scientific Publications of the American Museum of Natural History e Croy American Museum Novitates TyPe SPeCIMeNS oF BIrDS IN THe Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History : Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History T AMERICAN MUSeUM oF NATUrAL HISTORY y P Publications Committee e SP PArT 8. PASSERIFORMeS: Robert S. Voss, Chair e Board of Editors CIM PACHyCePHALIDAe, AeGITHALIDAe, reMIZIDAe, Jin Meng, Paleontology e Lorenzo Prendini, Invertebrate Zoology NS PArIDAe, SITTIDAe, NEOSITTIDAe, CERTHIIDAe, Robert S. Voss, Vertebrate Zoology o rHABDORNITHIDAe, CLIMACTERIDAe, DICAeIDAe, Peter M. Whiteley, Anthropology F BI PArDALoTIDAe, AND NeCTArINIIDAe Managing Editor r DS: DS: Mary Knight 8. PAS M Ary L eCroy Submission procedures can be found at http://research.amnh.org/scipubs S ER Complete lists of all issues of Novitates and Bulletin are available on the web (http:// IF digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace). Inquire about ordering printed copies via e-mail from OR [email protected] or via standard mail from: M e American Museum of Natural History—Scientific Publications, S Central Park West at 79th St., New York, NY 10024. This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (permanence of paper). AMNH BULL On the cover: The type specimen of Pachycephala nudigula Hartert, 1897, shown here in a lithograph by J.G. e TIN 333 Keulemans (Novitates Zoologicae, 1897, 4: pl. 3, fig.3), was collected by Alfred Everett on Flores Island, Indonesia, in October 1896. The bare, deep red throat, unique in the genus, occurs only in the adult male and is inflated when he sings. The female and immature male have white, feathered throats. 2010 Known only from Flores, subspecies nudigula, and from Sumbawa, subspecies ilsa. BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY PART 8. PASSERIFORMES: PACHYCEPHALIDAE, AEGITHALIDAE, REMIZIDAE, PARIDAE, SITTIDAE, NEOSITTIDAE, CERTHIIDAE, RHABDORNITHIDAE, CLIMACTERIDAE, DICAEIDAE, PARDALOTIDAE, AND NECTARINIIDAE MARY LECROY Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History ([email protected]) BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Number 333, 178 pp. Issued June 3, 2010 Copyright E American Museum of Natural History 2010 ISSN 0003-0090 Eafa maculata Rothschild and Hartert, 1903, type of genus and species. Now: Rhamphocharis crassirostris piperata (De Vis, 1898). ABSTRACT This eighth part of ‘‘Type Specimens of Birds in the American Museum of Natural History’’ includes taxa covered in volume 12 of the Check-list of Birds of the World (Paynter, 1967) except for the families Zosteropidae and Meliphagidae, which will comprise a separate part. The original description of each form has been consulted unless otherwise noted, coordinates for type localities are given when possible, currently accepted names for the taxa included, and comments on taxonomic history provided. In all, 419 names are treated, five of these being replacement names; 102 of them were introduced by G.M. Mathews. Types of 12 of these names are not in AMNH or were not found. Four paratypes are discussed, the holotypes of which were almost certainly destroyed in World War II. This part of the type list, as well as all previous parts, are searchable and available for download from the AMNH Library web site: http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/. INTRODUCTION coordinates are given when found. Longitude and latitude are given in degrees and minutes, This eighth part of ‘‘Type Specimens of which are separated by a period, as is done in Birds in the American Museum of Natural the Times Atlas of the World (Times of History’’ includes taxa covered in Volume 12 London, 1967) from which many are taken. of the Check-list of Birds of the World Other atlases and gazetteers have been used (Paynter, 1967) except for the families as well and are cited in the text. Zosteropidae and Meliphagidae, which will The currently recognized name of each comprise a separate part. As did earlier parts taxon is given and reference is made to the (Greenway, 1973, 1978, 1987; LeCroy and usage in a recent publication, preferably Sloss, 2000, and LeCroy, 2003, 2005, 2008), regional works or works treating the family this part follows the order of ‘‘Peters’ Check- as a whole. Once again, I have referred to list’’ series, which is the basis for the Dickinson’s (2003) Complete Checklist of the arrangement of the AMNH collection. More Birds of the World and subsequent corrigenda recent classifications are still subject to for each of the taxa covered in the present frequent modification and their use for these publication but have not listed it for each. AMNH type lists could lead to errors and Complete taxonomic history is not given for omissions. Volumes 12 and 13 of Handbook each of the forms, but salient points are of Birds of the World (del Hoyo et al., 2007, added when they might prove useful. 2008) are a source for references to current To avoid uncertainty, I have referred to molecular studies and provide recent classi- Rothschild specimens, said in the older fications of the families included here. literature to be in the ‘‘Tring Museum,’’ as The format for this part follows that for in the ‘‘Rothschild Collection’’ now in previous ones. Brackets enclosing a taxon AMNH. The bird collection of The Natural entry indicate that, although its type might be History Museum (formerly the British Mu- expected to be in AMNH, the type either was seum (Natural History), London) is now not found or was discovered in another housed at Tring on the former Rothschild collection. In four cases, paratypes in estate, and this is a continuing source of AMNH are listed when holotypes in other confusion. museums were almost certainly lost during I have accepted Hartert’s (1918a, 1920a, World War II. The citation of the name and 1922c, 1928a, 1931) nomination of ‘‘types’’ in of the type locality is first given exactly as it the Rothschild Collection as designations of appeared in the original description that has lectotypes in cases where original descriptions been seen unless otherwise indicated. In the implied syntypes, following the practice in all text portion for each taxon, the name of the previous parts of the AMNH type list. For a type locality is updated when necessary to fuller discussion, see LeCroy (2005: 2–3, accord with modern place names, followed 2008: 2–3). In cases where Hartert’s nomina- by the original spelling in parentheses, and tion proved ambiguous, I have designated as 4 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 333 lectotype the specimen bearing the Roth- tion was sold, the Mathews types frequently schild type label, interpreting this as an bear both Mathews and Rothschild type indication that Hartert intended this speci- labels, and I have used these as an indication men as the type; indeed, he may have as to Mathews’ intended type. Because considered the presence of a type label Mathews did not catalog all of his speci- enough in the days before the more rigorous mens—none after 1914—and because he codification of the rules of nomenclature. frequently purchased old collections many According to the current Code (ICZN, 1999, years after they were collected, it is often Art. 72.4.7), the presence of a type label in impossible to determine when Mathews and of itself is not sufficient to identify a actually received a specimen. In this part of type, and ambiguity arises when the data the type list, I have considered as paratypes given for the type apply to more than one of a name introduced by Mathews (in bold specimen in the type series. I have used type) only those specimens that I have found lectotypification in such cases to stabilize the in Mathews’ catalog. On occasion, other nomenclature and remove sources of poten- likely paratypes not found in the Mathews tial confusion in interpreting older literature, catalog are listed in regular type as possible in which the type status of a specimen paratypes. I have designated the following bearing a Rothschild type label has rarely Mathews lectotypes herein: Falcunculus leu- been questioned. Most often, the entire type cogaster stirlingi, Gilbertornis gilberti mallee, series, if known, is in AMNH, but the Pachycephala rufiventris colletti, Lewinornis Rothschild Collection was never cataloged. rufiventris waddelli, Colluricincla parvula There is no record of specimens Rothschild omissa, and Pardalotus rubricatus leichhardti. may have sent to dealers for sale or ex- The following acronyms are used in the changed with other collections before he sold text: AM, Australian Museum, Sydney, Aus- his collection. I have designated herein the tralia; AMNH, American Museum of Natural following lectotypes, other than those for History, NY; ANSP, Academy of Natural Mathews’names:Pachycephalaeveretti,Pachy- Sciences, Philadelphia, PA; BMNH, The cephala pectoralis javana, Pachycephala Natural History Museum, Tring, UK; fulviventris, Pachycephala melanura buruensis, FMNH, Field Museum of Natural History, Pachycephala contempta, Pachycephala ex- Chicago, IL; ICZN, International Commis- aminata, Aegithalos caudatus pyrenacius, sion on Zoological Nomenclature; MHNP, Melanocharis longicauda orientalis, Anthreptes Muse´um National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, collaris ugandae, Cinnyris frenata saleyerensis, France; MRAC, Muse´e Royal de l’Afrique and Cinnyris souimanga apolis. Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium; MSNG, Museo Once again, verifying types from the G.M. Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Genoa, Mathews Australian Collection, which was Italy; MV, Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, purchased by Rothschild, has proven time- Australia; MZB, Museum Zoologicum Bo- consuming and frustrating. As previously, I goriense, Cibinong, nr. Bogor, Indonesia; have tried to list all names introduced by NMW, Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Mathews prior to the AMNH purchase of Austria; OMNH, Sam Noble Oklahoma the Rothschild Collection in 1932, whether or Museum of Natural History, Norman, OK; not the types are in AMNH.