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Ptilotis erythropleura Salvadori, 1876 Annali del Museo civico di Storia naturale di Genova, 1875 (7): 949 [printed March 1876]. Current name: Ptiloprora erythropleura erythropleura (Salvadori, 1876) Syntype NHMO-BI-86778 [I021017]; Study skin; F; Odoardo Beccari (g), 3 May 1875; Indonesia: Mte. Arfak (Mori 3500 p.) [Arfak Mountains]; 1.357° S 134.160° E; 15a. Remarks: The original collector’s label (Figure 6a) is still attached, showing that this is specimen g of the type series (Salvadori 1881). The ‘p.’ in the locality name is an abbreviation for ‘piedi’, i.e. feet. Arbocco et al. (1979) listed three syntypes in Genoa (C.E. 11455–11457), and according to Enrico Borgo at the MSNG (pers. comm.) these are specimens b, h and i, respectively, as listed by Salvadori (1881). The latter of these, specimen i, is not one of the syntypes; Salvadori (1881) stated that specimens a–h are the types, which is also in accordance with Salvadori (1876a) basing his description on eight individuals only. Another syntype (MZUT Av4127) is in MRSN 3 in Turin (Aimassi et al. 2020); this corresponds to specimen e or f in Salvadori (1881), but its label does not indicate which of these it is (Luca Ghiraldi, pers. comm.). 3 The ornithological collection of the Zoological Museum of the Turin University (MZUT) has since the 1990s been hosted at the Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali (MRSN) in Turin, but the specimens in this collection have retained their MZUT inventory numbers (Aimassi et al. 2020)., Published as part of Johannessen, Lars Erik & Lifjeld, Jan T., 2022, Type specimens of birds in the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway, pp. 451-486 in Zootaxa 5150 (4) on page 466, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5150.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6626759, {"references":["Salvadori, T. (1881) Ornitologia della Papuasia e delle Molucche. Vol. 2. Stamperia Reale della ditta G. B. Paravia E Comp., Torino, 705 pp.","Arbocco, G., Capocaccia, L. & Violani, C. (1979) Catalogo dei tipi di uccelli del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 82, 184 - 265.","Salvadori, T. (1876 a) Descrizione di cinquantotto nuove specie di uccelli, ed osservazioni intorno ad altre poco note, della Nuova Guinea e di altre Isole Papuane, raccolte dal D. r Odoardo Beccari e dai cacciatori del Sig. A. A. Bruijn. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 7, 896 - 976. [1875]","Aimassi, G., Pulcher, C. & Ghiraldi, L. (2020) Type specimens of birds in the Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali (Torino, Italy). Journal of the National Museum (Prague), Natural History Series, 189, 65 - 154. https: // doi. org / 10.37520 / jnmpnhs. 2020.007"]}

Johannessen, Lars Erik, Lifjeld, Jan T. (2022): Type specimens of birds in the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway. Zootaxa 5150 (4): 451-486, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5150.4.1

Ptilopus (Leucotreron) alligator Collett, 1898 Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London, 1898 (3): 354–355. Current name: Ptilinopus alligator Collett, 1898 Syntype NHMO-BI-77948; Mounted; Ad. M; Knut Dahl (1247), 15 June 1895; Australia: South Alligator River; 13.515° S 132.505° E; 8b. Remarks: Collett (1898) based the original description on two birds, a male and a female collected by Knut Dahl, without specifying any one of them as the holotype. The other specimen was sent to the BMNH (Sharpe 1906; Warren 1966), where it is currently catalogued as NHMUK 1898.10.10.2 (Natural History Museum 2014b; Hein van Grouw, pers. comm.). Based on a list of specimens collected by Dahl during his Australia expedition (unpublished), it is evident that the original collector’s number of the NHMUK specimen must be 1248. The original label, written by the collector, is present at the base of the stand (Figure 2b). The species is also here referred to simply as ‘Columba’. Collett placed this new taxon in the subgenus Leucotreron and used the spelling Ptilopus for the genus, while the original spelling was Ptilinopus (Swainson 1825). The form Ptilopus was apparently introduced by Strickland (1841: p. 36), posing the question ‘Should not Ptilonopus [sic] be written Ptilopus ? ’, and in the period to follow this seemed to be the favoured spelling of the genus (e.g. Bonaparte 1857; Rowley 1877; Elliot 1878). Currently the original spelling is again used by all the major taxonomic lists, including the IOC World Bird List (Gill et al. 2022), and Leucotreron is no longer recognized as a subgenus. According to the Code (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1999) these changes in the spelling of the genus name (Article 51.3.1) and rank (Article 51.3.2) do not warrant use of parentheses around the original author name. For the NHMUK specimen, slightly different coordinates are provided for the South Alligator River locality (Warren 1966; Schodde & Mason 1997; Natural History Museum 2014b); 13° 30`S, 132° 50`E = 13.500° S 132.833° E, i.e. ca. 29 km further east than those provided above. While the location provided in the current publication is based on a detailed study of the travelogue of the collector (Dahl 1898; 1926), as well as his field diaries and letters to Collett, it has not been possible to find any documented source of the coordinates given in the NHMUK records. It is therefore assumed that they are added simply on the basis of the rather wide-ranging locality name (no coordinates are present, neither in the register book nor on any of the labels of the specimen; Hein van Grouw, pers. comm.). As Dahl in a letter to Collett stated that they had been travelling in the mountains between the Mary and South Alligator Rivers, we consider the coordinates presented here to be the more likely of the two sets (though still subject to the cautionary note provided in the Format section above)., Published as part of Johannessen, Lars Erik & Lifjeld, Jan T., 2022, Type specimens of birds in the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway, pp. 451-486 in Zootaxa 5150 (4) on page 458, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5150.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6626759, {"references":["Collett, R. (1898) On some pigeons and parrots from North and Northwest Australia. Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London, 1898, 353 - 357. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1898. tb 03152. x","Sharpe, R. B. (1906) 3. Birds. In: The history of the collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. Vol. II. Separate historical accounts of the several collections included in the Department of Zoology. Trustees of the British Museum, London, pp. 79 - 515.","Warren, R. L. M. (1966) Type-specimens of birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 1. Non-Passerines. Trustees of the British Museum, London, 320 pp.","Natural History Museum (2014 b) Dataset: Collection specimens. Resource: Specimens. Specimen 1898.10. 10.2, Natural History Museum Data Portal (data. nhm. ac. uk). Available from: https: // data. nhm. ac. uk / object / 74 fe 774 f- 0 f 7 c- 4784 - 9213 - 49 d 4 606968 f 7 / 1642550400000 (accessed 14 March 2022)","Swainson, W. (1825) On the characters and natural affinities of several new birds from Australasia; including some observations on the Columbidae. The Zoological Journal, 1 (4), 463 - 484.","Strickland, H. E. (1841) Commentary on Mr. G. R. Gray's ' Genera of birds, ' 1840. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 1, 7 (41), 26 - 41. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 03745484109442660","Bonaparte, C. L. (1857) Conspectus generum avium. Vol. 2. E. J. Brill, Leyden, 232 pp.","Rowley, G. D. (1877) On the genus Ptilopus. In: Rowley, G. D. (Ed.), Ornithological Miscellany. Vol. 2. Trubner and Co., London, pp. 337 - 351.","Elliot, D. G. (1878) On the fruit-pigeons of the genus Ptilopus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1878, 500 - 575. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1469 - 7998.1878. tb 07987. x","Gill, F., Donsker, D. & Rasmussen, P. (2022) IOC World Bird List (v 12.1). Available from: http: // www. worldbirdnames. org / (accessed 28 March 2022) https: // doi. org / 10.14344 / IOC. ML. 12.1","International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1999) International code of zoological nomenclature. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London, 306 pp.","Schodde, R. & Mason, I. J. (1997) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae). Vol. 37.2. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, xiii + 440 pp.","Dahl, K. (1898) Reiser i Nord-Vest-Australien. Alb. Cammermeyers Forlag, Kristiania, 462 pp.","Dahl, K. (1926) In savage Australia. An account of a hunting and collecting expedition to Arnhem Land and Dampier Land. Philip Allan, London, 326 pp."]}

Nesospiza wilkinsi dunnei Hagen, 1952 Birds of Tristan da Cunha. Results of the Norwegian scientific expedition to Tristan da Cunha 1937–1938, No. 20: 172–177. Current name: Nesospiza acunhae dunnei Hagen, 1952. Holotype NHMO-BI-100346; In alcohol; Ad. F; Yngvar Hagen (250), 20 February 1938; SHN 4: Inaccessible, above Blenden Hall; 37.294° S 12.694° W; 18a. Paratype NHMO-BI-64842 [I023510]; Study skin; Imm.; Yngvar Hagen (270), 1 March 1938; SHN: Inaccessible, above Blenden Hall; 37.300° S 12.701° W; 17a. Paratype NHMO-BI-100347; In alcohol; Imm.; Yngvar Hagen (249), 20 February 1938; SHN: Inaccessible, above Blenden Hall; 37.294° S 12.694° W; 18b. Remarks: Hagen (1952) based his description of this new subspecies on one adult female, which he designated as the ‘Type’, and two immature specimens of unknown sex. The adult female is, therefore, considered to be the holotype of this taxon, according to article 73.1.1 of the Code (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1999), and the immature specimens paratypes. All types are present in the NHMO collection. All three specimens are labelled with metal tags having the collector’s field number embossed into them (Figure 7). The adult female and one of the immatures were originally preserved in formalin (Hagen 1952) but has later been transferred to 70% ethanol. The subspecies has subsequently been transferred to the congeneric N. acunhae, as Nesospiza acunhae dunnei (Ryan 2008)., Published as part of Johannessen, Lars Erik & Lifjeld, Jan T., 2022, Type specimens of birds in the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway, pp. 451-486 in Zootaxa 5150 (4) on pages 470-471, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5150.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6626759, {"references":["Hagen, Y. (1952) Birds of Tristan da Cunha. In: Results of the Norwegian scientific expedition to Tristan da Cunha 1937 - 1938. Vol. 20. Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, Oslo, pp. 1 - 248.","International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1999) International code of zoological nomenclature. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London, 306 pp.","Ryan, P. G. (2008) Taxonomic and conservation implications of ecological speciation in Nesospiza buntings on Tristan da Cunha. Bird Conservation International, 18, 20 - 29. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 095927090800004 X"]}

Petrophassa rufipennis Collett, 1898 Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London, 1898 (3): 354. Current name: Petrophassa rufipennis Collett, 1898 Syntype NHMO-BI-77947; Mounted; Ad. M; Knut Dahl (1245), 19 June 1895; Australia: South Alligator River; 13.515° S 132.505° E; 8a. Remarks: Collett (1898) based the original description on two adult males collected by Knut Dahl, without specifying any one of them as the holotype. One of the specimens was sent to the British Museum (Natural History) (BMNH; Sharpe 1906; Warren 1966), where it currently is catalogued as NHMUK 1898.10.10.1 (Natural History Museum 2014a; Hein van Grouw, pers. comm.). The original label, written by the collector, is present at the base of the stand (Figure 2a). The species is here referred to simply as ‘ Columba ’., Published as part of Johannessen, Lars Erik & Lifjeld, Jan T., 2022, Type specimens of birds in the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway, pp. 451-486 in Zootaxa 5150 (4) on page 457, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5150.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6626759, {"references":["Collett, R. (1898) On some pigeons and parrots from North and Northwest Australia. Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London, 1898, 353 - 357. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1898. tb 03152. x","Sharpe, R. B. (1906) 3. Birds. In: The history of the collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. Vol. II. Separate historical accounts of the several collections included in the Department of Zoology. Trustees of the British Museum, London, pp. 79 - 515.","Warren, R. L. M. (1966) Type-specimens of birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 1. Non-Passerines. Trustees of the British Museum, London, 320 pp.","Natural History Museum (2014 a) Dataset: Collection specimens. Resource: Specimens. Specimen 1898.10. 10.1, Natural History Museum Data Portal (data. nhm. ac. uk). Available from: https: // data. nhm. ac. uk / object / 5995 d 71 a- 6 dc 0 - 4905 - aa 94 - cc 1 ac 3 c 79 cd 5 / 1642550400000 (accessed 14 March 2022)"]}

Ptilopus flavovirescens Meyer, AB, 1884 Sitzungsberichte und Abhandlungen der Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Isis in Dresden, Abhandlungen 1884: 50. Current name: Ptilinopus regina xanthogaster (Wagler, 1827) Syntype NHMO-BI-59271 [I016967]; Study skin; Johann Gerard Friedrich Riedel, 1881–1883; Indonesia: Timorlaut [Tanimbar Islands]; 7.500° S 131.500° E; (10a). Remarks: This specimen is labelled as ‘Typus’ both in the accompanying letter from Meyer and on the label (Figure 3a), which seems to be in the same handwriting as the letter and therefore most likely written by Meyer. In the original description, Meyer (1884) stated that he based his description on a large series of specimens (‘grossen Serie’); Eck & Quaisser (2004) specified the number of syntypes in this series more precisely as 16, which also corresponds with the contiguous series of specimens recorded in the MTD catalogue (C7114–C7129; Table 2). In addition to the six specimens for which current location is accounted for in Table 2, there are also three in NHMW (NMW 48.234 –48.236; Pelzeln & Lorenz 1888; Schifter 1990; Schifter et al. 2007; Hans-Martin Berg, pers. comm.), but it is not known which numbers from the Dresden collection these correspond to. These three, and the NHMO specimen, must however be assumed to be among the 10 syntypes without known current location. While no collection date was provided for the NHMO specimen, we have based the interval given for collection date (1881–1883) on information available in Meyer (1881) and Meyer (1884). In the former, presented in Wien on 7 December 1881, Meyer listed specimens of birds received from Riedel, collected by him during a round trip of the eastern Malay Archipelago in 1880. The only species included from the Tanimbar Islands were Carpophaga concinna Wallace, 1865 (currently Ducula concinna (Wallace, 1865); from both Tenimber and Cera) and Eclectus riedeli (currently Eclectus roratus riedeli Meyer, AB, 1882; only from Cera). As no Ptilopus flavovirescens specimens were included in this shipment, it can probably be assumed that he did not collect this species during the 1880 trip. We have therefore concluded that the Ptilopus flavovirescens specimens most likely have been collected at the earliest in 1881, and, as the paper in which the taxon was described is dated March 1884, they were probably collected no later than 1883. This also corresponds well with information provided by Büttikofer (1886), describing a collection of 35 bird skins, including Ptilopus flavovirescens, presented to the Leyden Museum by Riedel, collected by his hunters on ‘Timor-Laut ’ in 1882. a: See Format section of main text for details about different catalogue numbers. b: All MTD/SNSD data provided by Martin Päckert (pers. comm.) c: 1. Eck & Quaisser (2004); 2. Patrick Bousses, pers. comm.; 3. Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle Paris (France) (2020c); 4. Pelzeln & Lorenz (1888); 5. Schifter et al. (2007); 6: Hans-Martin Berg, pers. comm.; 7. Current publication. In addition to the assumed original label mentioned above, there is also a label that has been added at the NHMO (Figure 3b), probably shortly after accessioning into the collection., Published as part of Johannessen, Lars Erik & Lifjeld, Jan T., 2022, Type specimens of birds in the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway, pp. 451-486 in Zootaxa 5150 (4) on pages 458-460, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5150.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6626759, {"references":["Wagler, J. (1827) Systema avium. J. G. Cottae, Stuttgartiae et Tubingae, pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 137031","Meyer, A. B. (1884) Ueber neue und ungenugend bekannte Vogel, Nester und Eier aus dem Ostindischen Archipel im Konigl. Zoologischen Museum zu Dresden. Sitzungsberichte und Abhandlungen der Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Isis in Dresden, Abhandlungen 1884, 3 - 64.","Eck, S. & Quaisser, C. (2004) Verzeichnis der Typen der Vogelsammlung des Museums fur Tierkunde in den Staatlichen Naturhistorischen Sammlungen Dresden. Zoologische Abhandlungen, Dresden, 54, 233 - 316.","Pelzeln, A. v. & Lorenz, L. v. (1888) Typen der ornithologischen Sammlung des k. k. naturhistorischen Hofmuseums. IV. Theil (Schluss). Annalen des K. K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums, 3 (1), 37 - 62.","Schifter, H. (1990) Dr. Adolf Bernhard Meyer und die Vogelsammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien. Zoologische Abhandlungen, Dresden, 46 (3), 63 - 73.","Schifter, H., Bauernfeind, E. & Schifter, T. (2007) Die Typen der Vogelsammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien. Teil I. Nonpasseres. Kataloge der wissenschaftlichen Sammlungen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 20 (Aves, Heft 1), 1 - 376.","Meyer, A. B. (1881) Ueber Vogel von einigen der sudostlichen Inseln des malayischen Archipels, insbesondere uber diejenigen Sumba's. Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-koniglichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 31, 759 - 774.","Wallace, A. R. (1865) On the pigeons of the Malay Archipelago. The Ibis, 7 (4), 365 - 400. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1474 - 919 X. 1865. tb 06057. x","Buttikofer, J. (1886) On a collection of birds from the Tenimber Islands. Notes from the Leyden Museum, 8, 58 - 68."]}

Zosterops novae guineae Salvadori, 1878 Annali del Museo civico di Storia naturale di Genova, 1878 (12): 341. Current name: Zosterops novaeguineae novaeguineae Salvadori, 1878. Syntype NHMO-BI-86649 [I019616]; Study skin; F; Antonie Augustus Bruijn (b), June 1874; Indonesia: Arfak [Arfak Mountains]; 1.083° S 133.967° E; 16a. Remarks: This specimen was received from Genoa in 1888 and is indicated as ‘tipico’ in the accompanying list (see discussion of Melanocharis chloroptera above). The original label is not present, only a replacement label that has been added at NHMO (Figure 6c). Salvadori (1878) did not specify an exact number of specimens in his original publication, but in Salvadori (1881), he listed eight specimens (a–h) as types of the species. Based on the information available on the current label, the NHMO specimen corresponds to specimen b. Salvadori spelled the specific epithet in two words, ‘ novae guineae’, in both of the mentioned publications, but in accordance with article 32.5.2.2 of the Code (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1999) it has later been changed to the current ‘novaeguineae’. Three other syntypes are in MSNG (C.E. 11526–11528; Arbocco et al. 1979), corresponding to specimens e, g and h in Salvadori (1881), and in MRSN specimen a is registered as MZUT Av4174 (Aimassi et al. 2020; Giorgio Aimassi, pers. comm.). A fifth specimen is in RMNH (RMNH 90782, collected by Bruijn in Arfak, 30 January 1876; Dekker & Quaisser 2006). This was not listed by Salvadori (1881), but as Salvadori in his original description wrote that he had examined several specimens collected by Beccari and Bruijn in the Arfak mountains, also this RMNH specimen must be considered part of the type series., Published as part of Johannessen, Lars Erik & Lifjeld, Jan T., 2022, Type specimens of birds in the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway, pp. 451-486 in Zootaxa 5150 (4) on pages 469-470, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5150.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6626759, {"references":["Salvadori, T. (1878) Descrizione di trentuna specie nuove di uccelli della sottoregione papuana, e note intorno ad altre poco conosciute. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 12, 317 - 347.","Salvadori, T. (1881) Ornitologia della Papuasia e delle Molucche. Vol. 2. Stamperia Reale della ditta G. B. Paravia E Comp., Torino, 705 pp.","International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1999) International code of zoological nomenclature. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London, 306 pp.","Arbocco, G., Capocaccia, L. & Violani, C. (1979) Catalogo dei tipi di uccelli del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 82, 184 - 265.","Aimassi, G., Pulcher, C. & Ghiraldi, L. (2020) Type specimens of birds in the Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali (Torino, Italy). Journal of the National Museum (Prague), Natural History Series, 189, 65 - 154. https: // doi. org / 10.37520 / jnmpnhs. 2020.007","Dekker, R. W. R. J. & Quaisser, C. (2006) Type-specimens of birds in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden. Part 3. Passerines: Pachycephalidae - Corvidae (Peters's sequence). NNM Technical Bulletin, 9, 1 - 77."]}

Eclectus riedeli Meyer, AB, 1882 Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London, 1881 (4): 917–919 [printed April 1882]. Current name: Eclectus roratus riedeli Meyer, AB, 1882 Refuted NHMO-BI-64131 [I022717]; Mounted; F; Johann Gerard Friedrich Riedel, 1881–1886; Indonesia: Timorlaut [Tanimbar Islands]; 7.500° S 131.500° E; 10b, lower specimen. Refuted NHMO-BI-64132 [I022718]; Mounted; M; Johann Gerard Friedrich Riedel, 1881–1886; Indonesia: Timorlaut [Tanimbar Islands]; 7.500° S 131.500° E; 10b, upper specimen. Remarks: This mounted pair, a male and a female, have ‘(Typus)’ written on their labels (with parentheses; Figure 3c and 3d), but this is not mentioned in the letter that accompanied the specimens when they arrived at the museum (Figure 1). While these labels are in a different style than the labels of Ptilopus flavovirescens (Figure 3a) and the Geoffroyus timorlaoënsis female (Figure 3f), they are very similar to those of the Geoffroyus timorlaoënsis male (Figure 3e) and Artamus Musschenbroeki (Figure 3g), and to labels written by Meyer and found on other specimens currently in the SNSD collection. They, hence, apparently represent a ‘ prettier’ version of Meyer’s handwriting, and also these labels are therefore considered to be original. ‘Typus’ and ‘Mus. Dresd. 86’, however, seem to have been added after the main text, probably by two different persons, and may likely have been added at NHMO. The original description of this species (Meyer 1882) was, however, based on a single female specimen, which consequently should be regarded as the holotype. This was at the MTD (now SNSD) but was lost during WW2 (C6051; Eck & Quaisser 2004). Consequently, neither of the specimens in the NHMO collection can be the true holotype of this taxon. Most likely these specimens represent a similar case to the E. roratus riedeli (NMW 50.145) in NHMW, which was included in the type catalogue by Pelzeln & Lorenz (1888) and there described as a ‘typical specimen’ (‘typisches Exemplar’) but later dismissed as a type by Schifter (1990). While no neotype, to our knowledge, has been assigned for this taxon, we refrain from doing so with reference to article 75.2 of the Code (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1999). No collecting date was provided for these specimens, but the same reasoning as explained for Ptilopus flavovirescens above has been applied. However, as the shipment containing these specimens was sent from Dresden in July 1886, and they are not part of the type series, they may have been collected as late as 1886., Published as part of Johannessen, Lars Erik & Lifjeld, Jan T., 2022, Type specimens of birds in the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway, pp. 451-486 in Zootaxa 5150 (4) on pages 462-463, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5150.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6626759, {"references":["Meyer, A. B. (1882) On a new species of Eclectus from the Timorlaut Islands. Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London, 1881, 917 - 918. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1881. tb 01348. x","Eck, S. & Quaisser, C. (2004) Verzeichnis der Typen der Vogelsammlung des Museums fur Tierkunde in den Staatlichen Naturhistorischen Sammlungen Dresden. Zoologische Abhandlungen, Dresden, 54, 233 - 316.","Pelzeln, A. v. & Lorenz, L. v. (1888) Typen der ornithologischen Sammlung des k. k. naturhistorischen Hofmuseums. IV. Theil (Schluss). Annalen des K. K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums, 3 (1), 37 - 62.","Schifter, H. (1990) Dr. Adolf Bernhard Meyer und die Vogelsammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien. Zoologische Abhandlungen, Dresden, 46 (3), 63 - 73.","International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1999) International code of zoological nomenclature. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London, 306 pp.","Meyer, A. B. (1886) Letter from A. B. Meyer to R. Collett 11 July 1886, National Library of Norway. Ms. fol. 4339. Available from: https: // urn. nb. no / URN: NBN: no-nb _ digimanus _ 180183 (accessed 06.02.2022)."]}