Turdus chalybeus Horsfield, 1821

1821 Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13: 148.

Now Aplonis panayensis strigata (Horsfield, 1821) .

See Amadon in Mayr & Greenway, 1962: 83 (Peters Checklist volume XV). Horsfield described both taxa on the same page, but Turdus strigatus was listed before Turdus chalybeus . Curiously, Amadon did not follow Sharpe (1890) who listed chalybeus and strigata and used Calornis chalybea, thus probably acting as First Reviser: this taxonomic issue is however outside the scope of our paper and might be treated in more details elsewhere (Edward Dickinson pers. comm.).

Syntypes: MHNG 129.051, unsexed adult, and MHNG 129.052, juvenile, both collected in Java between 1811 and 1817 by T. Horsfield .

Comment: They were incorrectly labelled as male and female on the basis of their distinct plumages. The NHM has two syntypes (Warren & Harrison, 1971: 104).