Cissa jefferyi Sharpe

Cissa jefferyi Sharpe, 1888b: 383 (Kina Balu).

Now Cissa thalassina jefferyi Sharpe, 1888 . See Hartert, 1919: 124; Blake and Vaurie, 1962: 244; Smythies, 2000: 628–629; Dickinson, 2003: 510; Dickinson et al., 2004c: 90–91; and dos Anjos, 2009: 597–598.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 676896, adult male, collected on Gunung (= Mount) Kinabalu, 8000 ft, 06.03N, 116.32E (Times Atlas), Sabah, Malaysia, on 16 March 1888, by John Whitehead (no. 2222). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: When Sharpe named jefferyi he described the above male and a female (Whitehead no. 2046). Both of these syntypes came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Hartert (1919: 124) listed the male as the type of jefferyi, thereby designating it the lectotype. The female, AMNH 676900, collected on Gunung Kinabalu on 23 March 1888 by Whitehead is the paralectotype . Four additional specimens collected by Whitehead in 1888 have no nomenclatural standing as the two syntypes had been designated in the original description.