Aethiopsar cristatellus formosanus 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 : 40

Aethiopsar cristatellus formosanus Hartert

Aethiopsar cristatellus formosanus Hartert, 1912b: 14 (Bankoro, Central Formosa).

Now Acridotheres cristatellus formosanus ( Hartert, 1912) . See Hartert, 1919: 136; Amadon, 1962a: 114; Feare and Craig, 1999: 149–151; Dickinson, 2003: 654; and Craig and Feare, 2009: 733.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 666543 , adult male, collected at Bankoro , Taiwan (= Formosa), on 6 May 1907, by collectors for Alan Owston (no. F 112). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert designated as type a male collected at Bankoro on 6 May 1907 and gave the no. ‘‘F. 112,’’ noting that he had 20 specimens. The above specimen with the correct data bears the Rothschild type label, but there are two male specimens collected on 6 May 1907, both with the number ‘‘F. 112.’’ Because AMNH 666543 was Hartert’s intended type and was

so cataloged when the Rothschild Collection came to AMNH, I hereby designate it the lectotype of Aethiopsar cristatellus formosanus to remove the ambiguity. The number ‘‘F. 112’’ is on all specimens collected on Taiwan in 1907 and may be the number of a collector or a species number. The 19 paralectotypes are: Bankoro, AMNH 666542 , 666544– 666546 , two males, two females, 23 April–9 May 1907 ; Naihokosho , AMNH 666547– 666553 , three males, four females, 4–24 June 1907 ; Shin-Chi-Ku, AMNH 666554–66658 , one male, three females, one sex?, 18–19 April 1896 ; Taipeh, AMNH 666559 , 666560 , one male, one female, 10 October 1896 ; Taipeh fu, AMNH 666561 , female, 9 April 1896 .