L. [Lanius] scapulatus M. H. C. Lichtenstein, 1823: 49 TL: Ind. orient.; restricted to Java (see below). Now Platylophus galericulatus galericulatus (Cuvier, 1816). See Bonaparte 1851: 79, Sharpe 1877: 317, Dickinson et al. 2004b: 113. SYNTYPES: ZMB 1383. [No sex or age given]. Loc.: Java. Coll.? Delaroque. Ex.Coll.: Delbrück. [Ex, Mus]. ZMB 1384. [No sex or age given]. Loc.: Java. Coll.? Delaroque. Ex.Coll.: Delbrück. [Ex, Mus]. COMMENTS: The taxonomic position of the genus Platylophus is uncertain and it may not be closely related to the Corvidae (Dickinson et al. 2004a: 87). Lichtenstein (1823) referred in his sale list only to material available at that time in the ZMB. Therefore both ZMB specimens are considered true syntypes, although the description was partly taken from Levaillant’s plate 42 (Levaillant 1806). Furthermore, by indication (ICZN 1999, arts. 12.2.1, 12.2.7, 74.4) any specimen used for Levaillant’s illustration would also be a syntype of Lanius scapulatus. Carl Delbrück (fl. 1819–1838) was apparently a ‘Consul’ (probably with some connections to Senegal), co-founder of the auction house ̔Albrecht & Delbrück’ in Bordeaux and natural history dealer in the first half of the 19th century, with nearly global coverage (ZMB archives, Zool. Mus., Sign. SI, Delbrück, C. I & II). The ZMB bought from him one specimen of this species each in March and October 1822, both probably collected by a Mr Delaroque, a person named in the specimen lists (ZMB archives, Zool. Mus., Sign. SI, Delbrück, C. II, p. 4, no. 167; p. 12, no. 60; birds labelled as acquired from a Mr Delaroque two decades later are also found at the MNHN, cf. Voisin & Voisin 2008: 478). Lichtenstein (1823) gave the origin of the specimens as ‘ India orientalis’. The collecting locality on the label, however, is given as Java, to which I therefore here formally restrict the type locality.

Published as part of 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, pp. 1-49 in Zootaxa 2149 (1) on pages 4-5, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2149.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/16115357