Passer rutilans debilis 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 : 8-9

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/885.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4629977
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scientific name	Passer rutilans debilis Hartert
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Passer rutilans debilis Hartert, 1904a: 162 (Sind- Tal in Kaschmir).

Now Passer rutilans cinnamomeus (Gould, 1836) View in CoL . See Hartert, 1919: 159; Vaurie, 1956: 17–19; Dickinson, 2003: 716; and Summers-Smith, 2009: 796.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 719338 View Materials , male, collected in the Sind Valley (= Sind-Tal), Kashmir , India, on 19 July 1873, by Colonel Biddulph (no. 7265.g). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert gave Biddulph’s number of the holotype with unique added letter and measurements for more than one male; the female was not described. There are five male Biddulph skins in AMNH in addition to the holotype, all of which bear the number 7265 with an added letter, different for each. I assume this to be a lot number assigned for a sale. I have considered these five specimens paratypes: Kashmir, AMNH 719349 View Materials (7265.a), no date ; ‘‘Souamaz,’’ AMNH 719352 View Materials (7265.h), 15 July, no year ; Murree, AMNH 719353 View Materials (7265.k), AMNH 719354 View Materials (7265.j), no date ; Simla, AMNH 719357 View Materials (7265.i), July [18]75. Other specimens with the number 7265 came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, but they were either collected by others or were females .

John Biddulph was in the British Colonial Service and resided in Gilgit, Kashmir, at least twice ( Biddulph, 1881, 1882). In both of his articles, he described the country around Gilgit in which birds were collected. Strangely, he did not list Passer rutilans or P. cinnamomeus in either paper, although the specimens are identified as P. cinnamomeus on his labels.

Lozupone et al. (2004) noted that the Sind Valley extends from Srinagar, 34.08N, 74.50E, to Zoji La Pass, 34.18N, 75.31E.