Pachycephala kuehni Hartert
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
Pachycephalidae
Pachycephala

description: <i>Pachycephala kuehni</i> Hartert <i>Pachycephala kuehni</i> Hartert, 1898d: 14 (Little Key Island). Now <i>Pachycephala griseonota kuehni</i> Hartert, 1989. See White and Bruce, 1986: 382, Dickinson, 2003: 478, and Boles, 2007: 427–428. LECTOTYPE: <b>AMNH 658775</b>, adult male, collected on Tual (<i>5</i> Toeal, as on label) Island, 07.14S, 131.23E (White and Bruce, 1986: 491), Kai Islands, Moluccas, Indonesia, on 11 November 1897, by Heinrich Kühn (no. 281). From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description, Hartert saying that Kühn sent ‘‘a small series of both sexes, adult and young, of this new species.’’ Later, he (Hartert, 1901a, 1903c) published on Kühn’s collection and (Hartert, 1903c: 248) gave a type series of eight specimens with their Kühn field numbers, listing Kühn specimen no. 287 as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype. Hartert (1920a: 446), in his list of Rothschild types, gave the number of this lectotype as ‘‘281.’’ An examination of AMNH 658775 shows that only one specimen is involved. Kühn’s original number, written in pencil appears to be ‘‘287’’; but when the number was written on the same label in ink, it can be interpreted as ‘‘281.’’ No other field number (see below) is similar, and all eight of the specimens came to AMNH. The seven paralectotypes, all collected on Tual in 1897, are: <b>AMNH 658772</b> (Kühn no. 193), male, 15 October; <b>AMNH 658773</b> (13), male, 24 August; <b>AMNH 658774</b> (495), male, 20 December; <b>AMNH 658776</b> (386), female, 15 December; <b>AMNH 658777</b> (469), female, 22 December; <b>AMNH 658778</b> (82), female, 16 September; and <b>AMNH 658779</b> (50), unsexed but considered a female by Hartert, 22 August. AMNH 658776 also bears a Rothschild type label and has previously been included in the AMNH type collection. I can find no reason for this inclusion but have left it with the types and added a label calling attention to the apparent error. Kei Kecil (<i>5</i> Little Key) Island is actually two islands, the smaller of which is Tual (<i>5</i> Toeal or Kei Doelah, on older maps), on which the town of Tual is situated. Mayr (1967: 35) considered <i>kuehni</i> a subspecies in the broad species <i>P. rufiventris</i>; White and Bruce (1986: 382), Dickinson (2003: 478), and Boles (2007: 427) listed it as a subspecies of the allospecies <i>P. griseonota</i> in the superspecies <i>rufiventris</i>.
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 pages 43-44
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