Artamus leucorhynchos

discussion

COMMENTS: In the original description, Stresemann designated the above unique specimen the type and gave measurements for six specimens (without asterisks) in the Rothschild Collection. Those six specimens are now in AMNH. The five paratypes are: Go’bang, AMNH 664546, male, October 1897, collected by Butler; Gopla Kabung, AMNH 664548, 664549, male, female, May 1897, collected by Butler; Port Blair, AMNH 664550, female, 22 November 1906, collected by Osmaston, AMNH 664551, sex?, March 1873, collected by Ellis (287 bis). Stresemann also gave measurements for specimens in other collections that were part of his type series.

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

materials_examined

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 664547, female, collected at Go’bang, South Andaman Island, 11.50 N, 92.40 E (Lozupone et al., 2004), Andaman Islands, in October 1897, by A. L. Butler. From the Rothschild Collection.

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