Hemipus picatus insulae Koelz

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 : 78

Hemipus picatus insulae Koelz

Hemipus picatus insulae Koelz, 1939: 69 (Wavenden, Ceylon).

Now Hemipus picatus leggei Whistler, 1939 . See Peters et al., 1960: 218, and Dickinson et al., 2002a: 45.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 655585 , unsexed, collected at Wavendon, 3500 ft, 07°04′N, 80°41′E (Gazetteer 49, USBGN), Sri Lanka, on 8 February 1881, by Henry J. Elwes. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the type was cited in the original description. The holotype, unsexed on the original label, has been sexed as a male on the Rothschild label. The six paratypes mentioned by Koelz (1939: 69) are AMNH 655581–655584, 655586, and 655612.

Hemipus p. insulae, published 5 June 1939, is a junior synonym of H. p. leggei, published 15 May 1939 ( Peters et al., 1960: 218).