Aethopyga gouldiae melittae Koelz

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 : 149

Aethopyga gouldiae melittae Koelz

Aethopyga gouldiae melittae Koelz, 1954: 21 (Mt. Victoria, 1400 m.).

Now Aethopyga gouldiae isolata Stuart Baker, 1925 . See Rand, 1967: 274, and Cheke and Mann, 2008a: 309.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 306280 , adult male, collected on Mt. Victoria , 1400 m, 21.12N, 93.55E (Times Atlas), Chin Hills , Myanmar, on 18 March 1938, by Gerd Heinrich on the Burma Expedition of 1937/38 (no. 2129).

COMMENTS: In the original description, Koelz cited the AMNH number of the holotype and listed seven males and nine females in AMNH and MCZ. The following are paratypes in AMNH: AMNH 306281– 306285, three males and two females from Mt. Victoria. Heinrich’s Mt. Victoria collection was reported on by Stresemann and Heinrich (1939) with specimens deposited in ZMB and American museums ( Stresemann and Heinrich (1939: 151), including MCZ and AMNH (although not specifically mentioned) where Koelz studied specimens.