Pteruthius rufiventer delacouri Mayr, 1941

Mary, Croy, History, Bulletin Of The American Museum Of Natural, At, Central Park West, Street, Th, York, New & Ny, 2005, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 6. Passeriformes: Prunellidae, Turdidae, Orthonychidae, Timaliidae, Paradoxornithidae, Picathartidae, And Polioptilidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (292), pp. 1-132 : 94-96

Pteruthius rufiventer delacouri Mayr

Pteruthius rufiventer delacouri Mayr [in Stanford and Mayr], 1941a: 96 (Loquiho, Tonkin).

Now Pteruthius rufiventer delacouri Mayr, 1941 . See Robson 2000: 462.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 291118 , adult male, collected at Lo­qui­ho, Vietnam, on 27 November 1929, by Jean Delacour and Pierre Jabouille (no. 1672).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. Delacour (1930: 591) did not say how many specimens were collected, but Mayr (in Stanford and Mayr, 1941a: 96) listed four males and two females in his type series comprising specimens in AMNH. The five paratypes are: AMNH 291116 , [male], Fan Si Pan, 23 November ; AMNH 291117 , male, Fan Si Pan, 2 December ; AMNH 291119 , female, Loqui­ho, 21 November ; AMNH 291120 , female, Lo­qui­ho, 1 December ; and AMNH 291121 , sex not indicated but apparently considered a male by Mayr, Lo­qui­ho, 6 December .

According to Delacour (1930: 564–565), specimens collected in November and December 1929 were from the vicinity of Fan Si Pan, 228199N, 1038469E (Times Atlas) and Cha Pa, 228209N, 1038509E (Times Atlas).

Pteruthius tahanensis Hartert Pteruthius tahanensis Hartert, 1902d: 576 (Gun­

ong Tahan, 5000–7000 ped. angl.).

Now Pteruthius melanotis tahanensis Hartert,

1902. See Robson, 2000: 463.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 591777 , adult male, collected on Gunong Tahan , 5000–7000 ft, 048349N, 1028179E (Times Atlas), Pahang, Malaysia, in October 1901, by Johannes Waterstradt. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In his original description, Hartert listed as type a specimen with the above data and then mentioned a second specimen with the same data but in such poor condition that the color and extent of the patch behind the eye could not be determined. The above specimen is the one in which the postocular patch can be seen clearly. The paratype is AMNH 591778, a specimen in very poor condition; it is marked ‘‘b’’ on the Rothschild label. The Waterstradt label on the above holotype is marked ‘‘Type!’’ and the specimen bears a Rothschild type label marked ‘‘a’’, although this was not cited in either the original description or in Hartert’s (1920: 478) list of Rothschild types.

Siva strigula malayana Hartert

Siva strigula malayana Hartert, 1902d: 567 (Gun­

ong Tahan, Pahang, Eastern Malay Peninsula). Now Minla strigula malayana (Hartert, 1902) .

See Robson, 2000: 465.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 591279 , adult male, collected on Gunong Tahan , 5000–7000 ft, 048349N. 1028179E (Times Atlas), Pahang, Malaysia, in October 1901, by Johannes Waterstradt. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, no type was designated from among the six specimens of both sexes that Waterstradt collected. Four of these specimens came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, two males and two females. Hartert (1920: 479) designated a male as the type but did not further distinguish between the two males, which bear the same data. Because the Waterstradt specimen listed above has ‘‘Type— Siva near castaneicauda [sic] new subsp. X’’ written on the Waterstradt label in Hartert’s hand and bears the Rothschild type label, it is undoubtedly the specimen Hartert intended as the type ; it is so cataloged in AMNH and has always been considered the type. In order to avoid confusion in interpreting the older literature, I hereby designate AMNH 591279 the lectotype. Paralectotypes at AMNH are: AMNH 591280 , male ; and AMNH 591281 and AMNH 591282 , females. The whereabouts of the other two specimens are unknown. No other specimens from the Rothschild Collection were collected early enough to have been part of the type series .

Siva strigula omissa Rothschild

Siva strigula omissa Rothschild, 1921: 40 (Gunong Kerbau, Perak, 5000 ft.)

Now Minla strigula malayana (Hartert, 1902) . See Deignan, 1964b: 396, and Robson, 2000: 465.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 591287 , adult female, collected on Gunong Kerbau , 5000 ft, 048439N, 1018179E (Times Atlas), Perak, Malaysia, on 18 March 1913, by a native collector for Herbert C. Robinson. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, the type was said to be a female from Gunong Kerbau, March 1913, in the Rothschild Collection; although measurements were there given for more than one female, only the single female specimen, now AMNH 591287 , came with the Rothschild Collection. A single male specimen was listed in the original description, paratype AMNH 591287 .

The field label of the holotype is printed ‘‘Mus. F[ederated] M[alay] S[tates]’’ but these two specimens were apparently never accessioned there. I do not know the significance of the number ‘‘479’’ that appears on both of these labels. Hartert (1928: 218) considered omissa recognizable.

Fulvetta chrysotis forresti Rothschild

Fulvetta chrysotis forresti Rothschild, 1926a: 64 (Shweli­Salween divide, Yunnan).

Now Alcippe chrysotis forresti (Rothschild, 1926) . See MacKinnon and Phillipps, 2000: 445–446.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 590290 , adult male, collected on the Shweli­Salween Divide , northwestern Yunnan, China, in December 1919, by George Forrest. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Rothschild noted that the type, sex not stated, collected by Forrest in the Shweli­Salween Divide, December 1919, was in the Rothschild Collection. He also said that he had ‘‘ four specimens, probably all males, though two marked as females’’. Forrest collected a total of seven specimens on his 1918–1919 expedition, not 17, as erroneously reported by Rothschild (1926b: 269) but corrected by Hartert (1928: 218). These four specimens represented Rothschild’s share ( LeCroy and Dickinson, 2001: 194). Three, one male and two marked female, are from the Shweli­Salween Divide and would have to be considered syntypes, as all bear the data listed for the ‘‘type’’; the fourth specimen was from a different locality. Hartert’s (1928: 218) list of Rothschild types did not further distinguish among the syntypes, but AMNH 590290 bears the Rothschild type label and Rothschild and Hartert both no doubt intended that the correctly sexed specimen should be the type. Because of the ambiguity surrounding this specimen, LeCroy and Dickinson (2001: 194) formally designated AMNH 590290 the lectotype. Paralectotypes are AMNH 590291 and 590292, both marked female and collected in December 1919 on the Shweli­Salween Divide.

The Salween River (5 Lu Chiang or Nu Chiang) rises in eastern Tibet and flows south through Yunnan into Myanmar ( Seltzer, 1962: 1655–1656), and the Shweli River (5 Juili) rises as the Lungchwan River in western Yunnan and flows south and southwest to join the Irrawaddy River ( Seltzer, 1962: 1759). Cheng (1987: 721) referred to these rivers as the Nujiang and Longchuan rivers.