Buchanga periophthalmica Salvadori

Buchanga periophthalmica Salvadori

Buchanga periophthalmica Salvadori, 1894: 594 (Si-Pora, Mentawei).

Now Dicrurus leucophaeus periophthalmicus ( Salvadori, 1894) . See Hartert, 1919: 131; Vaurie, 1949b: 259–260; 1962: 145; van Marle and Voous, 1988: 159; Dickinson, 2003: 492; and Rocamora and Yeatman-Berthelot, 2009: 220– 221.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 672152 , adult male, AMNH 672153 , adult female, collected at Si Oban , Sipura (= Sipora) Island, 02.12S, 99.40E ( van Marle and Voous, 1988: 216), Mentawi Islands, Indonesia, on 25 and 27 April 1894, respectively, by Elio Modigliani (nos. 62 and 86, respectively). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description, Salvadori did not designate a type, instead listing his 11 specimens, denoting them by letters a through k, giving Modigliani’s numbers for each, and noting that they were ‘‘tipi della specie.’’ The two AMNH syntypes are specimens b and e of Salvadori. Hartert (1919: 131) listed only the female specimen, now AMNH 672153, as a ‘‘Cotype’’ (= syntype) of periophthalmicus, noting that Salvadori had marked it ‘‘Typus’’ but stating that each of his specimens was ‘‘as good a type as the others.’’ AMNH 672152, the male specimen, marked ‘‘Cotypus’’ by Salvadori, was also recognized as a syntype by Vaurie (1949b: 259) and he attached an AMNH type label, marking it ‘‘Cotype.’’ There are two additional syntypes in MSNG ( Arbocco et al., 1979: 245–246).