Dicaeum misoriense

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Remarks: The original collector’s label is still attached (Figure 6 d), showing that this is specimen i of the type series (Salvadori 1881). Of the 10 specimens mentioned in the original description (Salvadori 1876 a), one syntype (not two, as stated by LeCroy (2010 )) is still in MSNG in Genoa (C. E. 11278; Arbocco et al. 1979), corresponding to specimen c in Salvadori (1881) (Enrico Borgo, pers. comm.). Two syntypes are in MRSN; MZUT Av 3943 and MZUT Av 3944 (Aimassi et al. 2020), corresponding to specimens a and j, respectively. The date on the original label of the latter (specimen j) is ‘ 8.5.75 ’ (Giorgio Aimassi and Luca Ghiraldi, pers. comm.) while Salvadori (1881) reported it as 3 May 1875 (‘ 3 Maggio 1875 ’); this may, however, be just a misreading of either the ‘ 3 ’ as ‘ 8 ’, or vice versa. Three more specimens (698077 – 698079, corresponding to specimens e, g and d, respectively, of Salvadori (1881 )) are in AMNH (LeCroy 2010), having arrived there with the Rothschild collection from Tring (Rothschild & Hartert 1903).