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Dicaeum bonga Hartert

  • 1. Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History (lecroy @ amnh. org)

Description

Dicaeum bonga Hartert

Dicaeum bonga Hartert, 1904c: 80 (Bonga, Samar).

Now Dicaeum ignipectus bonga Hartert, 1904. See Salomonsen, 1961a: 20, Dickinson et al., 1991: 397, and Cheke and Mann, 2008b: 387.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 697929, adult male, collected at Bonga, Samar Island, Philippines, on 18 June 1896, by John Whitehead (no. B.631). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Whitehead collected a single specimen of this form (see Ogilvie-Grant, 1897: 238–239, under D. luzoniense). Dickinson et al. (1991: 416) listed Bonga as probably at or near Bagacay, 12.50N, 125.13E; it is shown on the map in Whitehead (1899: 83).

Notes

Published as part of Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & 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) on page 116

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AMNH
Event date
1896-06-18
Family
Dicaeidae
Genus
Dicaeum
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
AMNH 697929
Order
Passeriformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Hartert
Species
bonga
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
1896-06-18

References

  • Hartert, E. 1904 c. [Dr. Ernst Hartert exhibited and described the following new birds from the Philippine Islands: -]. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 14: 79 - 80.
  • Salomonsen, F. 1961 a. Notes on flowerpeckers (Aves, Dicaeidae). 4. Dicaeum igniferum and its derivatives. American Museum Novitates 2057: 1 - 35.
  • Dickinson, E. C., R. S. Kennedy, and K. C. Parkes. 1991. The birds of the Philippines. B. O. U. Check-list no. 12. Tring, UK: British Ornithologists' Union, 507 pp.
  • Cheke, R. A., and C. F. Mann. 2008 b. Family Dicaeidae (flowerpeckers). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, volume 13: 350 - 389. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 880 pp., 60 pls., 536 photographs.
  • Ogilvie-Grant, W. R. 1897. On the birds of the Philippine Islands. - Part IX. The islands of Samar and Leite. With field-notes by John Whitehead. Ibis (7) 3: 209 - 250.
  • Whitehead, J. 1899. Field-notes on birds collected in the Philippine Islands in 1893 - 1896. Parts I and II. Ibis (7) 5: 81 - 111, 210 - 246.