Pericrocotus cinereigula Sharpe

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 76-77

Pericrocotus cinereigula Sharpe

Pericrocotus cinereigula Sharpe (in Sharpe and Whitehead), 1889: 192 (Kina Balu).

Now Pericrocotus solaris cinereigula Sharpe, 1889 . See Smythies, 1981: 275, Dickinson and Dekker, 2002a: 18, and Dickinson et al., 2002a: 43.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 563531 , adult male, collected on Mount Kinabalu , 3000 ft, ca. 06°03′N, 116°32′E (Times Atlas), Sabah, Malaysia, on 16

February 1887, by John Whitehead (no. 973). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1922b: 376) designated this specimen the lectotype. The two additional specimens listed by Sharpe (in Sharpe and Whitehead, 1889: 192) are paralectotypes: AMNH 563532, male juv., 18 (not 16) February 1887 and AMNH 563538, 1 March 1887. The latter specimen was originally sexed as a juvenile male and was so listed by Sharpe. Later, this was changed to ‘‘female’’ and appears as such on the Rothschild label.

As Hartert (1922b: 376) noted, the lectotype is an aberrant individual, with the throat grayish, washed yellowish, but the subspecies can be recognized on the basis of the all black central rectrices of adult males.