Monarchidae

Terpsiphone floris
Büttikofer, 1894: 293, pl. 18, fig. 1-3

Current name:
Terpsiphone paradisi floris

Asian Paradise-flycatcher
1 syntype

Syntype: ZMA 55051 (alcohol coll.), male, Bari (Flores, Indonesia), collected 26/28 Nov 1888 by M. Weber (coll. nr. 491a).

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Additional information
Büttikofer (1894) lists 7 syntypes, all collected on Flores in Nov-Dec 1888 by Max Weber: (1) a male from Reo (Weber's coll. nr. 7, on alcohol), (2) a male from Sikka (no coll. number, on alcohol), (3) a male from Maumeri (coll. nr. 48a, skin), (4) a female from Maumeri (coll. nr. 48, on alcohol), (5) a male from Bari (no coll. number, skin), (6-7) two males from Bari (coll. nrs. 491 & 491a, on alcohol). Of these, the last-mentioned is in the ZMA, the remainder is in the RMNH.

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