Piprisoma obsoletum subsp. tinctum Mayr
Creators: name: Pachycephalidae
name: Aegithalidae
name: Remizidae
name: Paridae
name: Sittidae
name: Neosittidae
name: Certhiidae
name: Rhabdornithidae
name: Climacteridae
name: Dicaeidae
name: Pardalotidae
name: Nectariniidae, And
name: Lecroy, Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Nectariniidae
Piprisoma

description: <i>Piprisoma obsoletum tinctum</i> Mayr <i>Piprisoma obsoletum tinctum</i> Mayr, 1944: 167 (Waingapu, Sumba). Now <i>Dicaeum agile tinctum</i> (Mayr, 1944). See White and Bruce, 1986: 408, and Cheke and Mann, 2008b: 370–371. HOLOTYPE: <b>AMNH 308003</b>, adult male, collected at Waingapu (<i>5</i> Waingapoe, as on label), 09.40S, 120.16E (Times Atlas), Nangamessi Bay, Sumba Island, Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, on 15 May 1932, by Georg Stein (no. 4664). COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description; he did not say how many specimens he examined, but included a single specimen each from Flores and Alor in addition to his Sumba birds and included Sumbawa in the range of <i>tinctum</i>. Mayr would have had, in addition to the Stein specimens, specimens from the other localities that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. The following are paratypes: <b>AMNH 347017–347024</b>, collected on Sumba by Stein in 1932; <b>AMNH 698401–698406</b>, specimens from the Rothschild Collection, collected by A.F. Everett and W. Doherty on Sumba in 1896; <b>AMNH 698407</b>, collected by Everett on Flores in 1896; <b>AMNH 698410</b>, collected by Everett on Alor in 1897. Stein’s expedition was jointly sponsored by Leonard C. Sanford for AMNH, Walter Rothschild, and ZMB. The Rothschild and AMNH shares of the collection are at AMNH, and AMNH 347018, 347019, and 347122 were sent to ZMB in January 1956. Mayr and Amadon (1947: 17) and Salomonsen (1960b: 13) pointed out that records of <i>Dicaeum agile tinctum</i> from Sumbawa were based on immatures of <i>D. annae</i> having been misidentified as <i>D. agile</i>. There are apparently no substantiated records of <i>D. agile tinctum</i> from Sumbawa.
description: Published as part of <i>Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And &amp; Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, pp. 1-178 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333)</i> on page 108
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