Lophocitta histrionica ̔ MS Müller’ Bonaparte, 1850

Steinheimer, Frank D., 2009, The type specimens of Corvidae (Aves) in the Museum für Naturkunde at the Humboldt-University of Berlin, with the description of a new subspecies of Dendrocitta vagabunda, Zootaxa 2149 (1), pp. 1-49 : 6

Lophocitta histrionica ̔ MS Müller’ Bonaparte, 1850 : 374

TL: Sumatra, Borneo.

Now Platylophus galericulatus coronatus ( Raffles, 1822) . See Sharpe 1877: 318, Dickinson et al. 2004b: 113. SYNTYPE: ZMB 1385. Adult. Loc.: Sumatra. Coll.: Schönberg & Müller [Ex, Mus written by Stresemann].

COMMENTS: Duncan (1937: 80) dated the publication of Bonaparte’s paper in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London ( Bonaparte 1851: 79) as 12 November 1850 but this was corrected to 14 March 1851 by Dickinson et al. (2004b: 138, footnote 81), thus making the first publication of the name that in Bonaparte’s Conspectus Generum Avium (pages relating to corvids published in November or December 1850, cf. Zimmer 1926: 68–69, van Rossem 1946: 243; E. Dickinson in litt. March 2009). The ZMB register and the label refer both to a Mr Schönberg and to Salomon Müller (1804–1863), who had explored the Malay Region while in the service of the Dutch, especially Sumatra from 1833 to 1835, amassing 6500 bird skins for the Leiden Museum. It was there in 1850 that Charles Lucian Bonaparte (1803–1857), after Müller had left Leiden in the same year, studied Müller’s MS notes and named the new taxon accordingly. Therefore all specimens of this taxon in Müller’s collection have to be considered syntypes, including this ZMB specimen. Two further syntypes are housed at the RMNH, 90634 and 90866, from Bantang Singalang, Sumatra. Hermann Schlegel (1857: 327) used alternatively the names histrionicus and rufulus for the birds of Sumatra and Borneo where Bonaparte in naming histrionica referred to Garrulus rufulus as the MS name of Temminck for the same specimens. The alternative offering of these names was thought by Dickinson et al. (2004b: 113) to be an invalid usage of the name rufulus .