Dicaeum minullum sinense Stresemann, 1923

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 110

[ Dicaeum minullum sinense Stresemann ]

Stresemann (1923: 365) described this subspecies based on six specimens from ‘‘Omi-Berg bei Yia-ting,’’ Szechwan, China, collected by H. Weigold in 1915, with the holotype said to be in SMTD. Eck and Quaisser (2004: 304) noted that the holotype and the single paratype held in SMTD were destroyed in World War II. They had no knowledge of the whereabouts of the other four specimens. Two of the paratypes, marked ‘‘Cotypus’’ are in AMNH and are now kept with the type collection, with added labels to indicate their paratype status: AMNH 697407, male, foothills of the Omi Mountains, 16 (or 18, as on Rothschild label) May 1915, and AMNH 697408, male, foot of the Omi Mountains, 14 May 1915, both collected by H. Weigold on the Stoetznersche Szetschwan-Expedition. Both came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. This form is now a synonym of D. concolor olivaceum Walden, 1875 ( Eck and Quaisser, 2004: 304; Cheke and Mann, 2008: 380).