Rhipidura cyaniceps pinicola Parkes, 1958

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Rhipidura cyaniceps pinicola Parkes

Rhipidura cyaniceps pinicola Parkes, 1958: 2 (Mt. Benguet (6000 feet), northern Luzon, Philippine Islands).

Now Rhipidura cyaniceps pinicola Parkes, 1958 . See Dickinson et al., 1991: 355, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 223.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 651785 , adult male, collected in Benguet, 6000 ft, northern Luzon Island , Philippines, on 30 January 1894, by John Whitehead (no. 131). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Parkes cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and listed the specimens that he examined. Of these, the following paratypes are at AMNH: AMNH 153828 , male, Baguio , 30 December 1906 ; AMNH 153829 , male, Baguio , 14 July 1907 ; AMNH 416903 , male, La Trinidad, 20 March 1930 ; AMNH 416904 , male, Haight’s Place , 20 April 1930 ; AMNH 651782 , male, ‘‘ Mt. ’’ Benguet, 6 January 1894 ; and AMNH 651783 , female, ‘‘ Mt. ’’ Benguet, 31 January 1894 .

Parkes gave the type locality as Mt. Benguet, but as pointed out by Dickinson et al. (1991: 416), this is an error; Whitehead’s label only says ‘‘ Benguet 6000 ft’’, with Benguet being a subprovince of Luzon. In his account of the birds that he collected in the Philippines, Whitehead (1899: 82) report- ed that he had traveled inland from San Fernando to La Trinidad, 16.28N, 120.35E ( Dickinson et al., 1991: 421), the capital of Benguet, apparently making that his base of operations.