Oriolus luteolus thaiacous Hartert

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 48

Oriolus luteolus thaiacous Hartert

Oriolus luteolus thaiacous Hartert, 1918c: 63 (Koh- Lak, Siamese portion of northern Malay Peninsula, east of Tenasserim).

Now Oriolus xanthornus xanthornus (Linnaeus, 1758) . See Hartert, 1928: 191–192; Greenway, 1962: 133; Deignan, 1963: 127; Dickinson, 2004: 55–56; Dickinson et al., 2004a: 71; Wells, 2007: 79–80; and Walther and Jones, 2008: 729–730.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 670561 , adult male, collected at Prachuap Khiri Khan (= Koh- Lak), 11.50N, 99.50E ( Deignan, 1963: 127), Prachuap Khiri Khan Province, Thailand, on 17 November 1913, by W.J.F. Williamson. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert gave the above data for the holotype and said that there were two additional specimens of thaiacous in the Rothschild Collection from Phum-Liou near Kompongthom, Cambodia. He also included ‘‘about 10 others from Siam in the British Museum, collected by Messrs. Herbert, Barton, Flow- er, and Williamson.’’ Paratypes in AMNH are: Phum Liou, Cambodia, AMNH 670563, unsexed, 27 July 1912, AMNH 670564, unsexed [immature], 20 August 1912, both ‘‘rec’d from Oberthür.’’