Cyanopica cyanus swinhoei Hartert, 1903

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 118

Cyanopica cyanus swinhoei Hartert

Cyanopica cyanus swinhoei Hartert, 1903d: 24 (Kiukiang) .

Now Cyanopica cyanus swinhoei Hartert, 1903 . See Hartert, 1919: 124; Vaurie, 1959: 147; Blake and Vaurie, 1962: 245; Cheng, 1987: 538–539; Dickinson et al., 2004: 117; and dos Anjos, 2009: 598–599.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 676165 , adult [?female], collected at Chiu-chiang (= Kiukiang), Kiangsi (Times Atlas ), China, on 26 November 1882, no. 351, by an unknown collector. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert designated as type the specimen with the above data, bearing no. 351. He noted that the form occurred in China with the exception of the southern and southeastern parts. The following specimens are considered paratypes: AMNH 676163 , male, Shanghai, in 1881 ; AMNH 676164 , male, ‘‘Gumansi, Amdo,’’ 8 May 1890, collected by N.A. Zarudny, AMNH 676166 , sex?, ‘‘ Woochang,’’ Hubei, River Yangtse , undated, both from the collection of H.H. Slater ; AMNH 676167 , sex?, ‘‘Slushow,’’ Hubei (= Hoopeh), 31 March 1869, collector unknown. I was unable to find the locality listed for AMNH 676164 , but Hartert (1917: 493) noted that this specimen agreed with swinhoei .