Phylloscopus occipitalis kail Koelz

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 60

Phylloscopus occipitalis kail Koelz

Phylloscopus occipitalis kail Koelz, 1939: 71 (Kail, Afghanistan).

Now Phylloscous occipitalis (Blyth, 1845) . See Watson et al., 1986a: 246, and Dickinson, 2003: 591.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 466349 , adult male (wing 67 mm), collected at Kail , Afghanistan, on 3 June 1937, by Walter Koelz.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Koelz said that the type of kail was collected at Kail on 3 June 1937 and had a wing measuring 67 mm. The above specimen with those data bears an AMNH type label, and Koelz’s label is marked ‘‘type’’ by him. Six of the eight paratypes Koelz listed were cataloged at AMNH: AMNH 466350 , male (wing 66 mm), and 466351, female from Kail ; AMNH 466352 , female from Iskarjir ; AMNH 466353 , male, and 466354, female from Gumandru ; and AMNH 466355 , male from Sanglich. Not in AMNH is the specimen from Daulatshah and one of the specimens from Kail .