Platylophus malaccensis Cabanis, 1866 : 310

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

Platylophus malaccensis Cabanis, 1866: 310

TL: Malacca.

Now Platylophus galericulatus malaccensis Cabanis, 1866 . See above; formerly erroneously referred to Platylophus galericulatus ardesiacus ( Bonaparte, 1850) in Sharpe 1877: 318, Dickinson et al. 2004b: 113.

SYNTYPES: ZMB 17122 [batch acquisition B.289]. Adult. Loc. : Malacca. Coll.: Ihne. [Ex, Mus]. ZMB 17123 [batch acquisition B.289]. Adult. Loc. : Malacca. Coll.: Ihne. [Ex, A /R, no ZMB label]. ZMB 17124 [specimen missing] [batch acquisition B.289]. Adult. Loc. : Malacca. Coll.: Ihne. [Ex, A /R]. ZMB 17125 [batch acquisition B.289]. Immature. Loc. : Malacca. Coll.: Ihne. [Ex, Mus]. ZMB 2002.595 [new registration]. Adult. Loc. Malacca. Coll. Galathea - Expedition. [S, Mus].

COMMENTS: The Dutch engineer and architect W. Ihne (fl. 1850s) collected in Java and Malacca, and the ZMB acquired a large batch of 1368 avian specimens from him in November 1853 (numbered 431 in the acquisition catalogues of the entire museum, 289 in the ornithological catalogues; ZMB archives, Zool. Mus. Sign. SI, Ihne, W., pp. 5–9). Ihne collected 7 specimens of this taxon of which four were given to the ZMB (only these are types), and one each to schools in Breslau [Wrocław], Halle (Saale) and Bonn (none of these school specimens traced; ZMB archives, Zool. Mus. Sign. SI, Ihne, W., p. 8). However, not just these four ZMB specimens were available to Cabanis in 1866, but also a specimen from the Danish Galathea -Expedition 1845–1847, received from Wilhelm Friedrich Georg Behn (see Crypsirhina pallida Blyth, 1846 , for more details), one of the expedition’s naturalists. Additional syntypes are found at the MHH (registration numbers MHH 4669, 4670, 4671, 4672) in Halberstadt, all also from Malacca ( Quaisser & Nicolai 2006: 70).