Acridotheres cristatella brevipennis Hartert

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 : 40

Acridotheres cristatella brevipennis Hartert

Acridotheres cristatella brevipennis Hartert, 1910: 250 (Kiungchau) .

Now Acridotheres cristatellus brevipennis Hartert, 1910 . See Hartert, 1919: 136; Amadon, 1962a: 114; Feare and Craig, 1999: 149–151; Dickinson, 2003: 654; and Craig and Feare, 2009: 733.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 666569 , adult male, collected at Ch’iung-chou (= Kiungchau), 19.56N, 110.30E (Times Atlas), Hainan Island , China, on 14 February 1902, by Zensaku Katsumata. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert designated as type of brevipennis a male from Kiungchau collected on 14 February 1902. AMNH 666569 bears a Rothschild type label, indicating that it was Hartert’s chosen type, was cataloged in AMNH as the type, and has always been considered as such. There are, however, three male specimens collected on that date. In order to validate Hartert’s chosen type and to remove the ambiguity, I hereby designate AMNH 666569 the lectotype of brevipennis. Hartert had specimens from Kiungchau and Hoihow when he named brevipennis, but did not enumerate them. The following paralectotypes are in AMNH: Hoihow, AMNH 666563 , 666564 , two males, 14, 30 March 1902 ; Kiungchau, AMNH 666565–666568 , 6665670–666574 , six males, three females, 13 February–1 March 1902 (one dated 30 February!), all collected by Katsumata.