Psittiparus gularis hainanus Rothschild, 1903

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 : 103

Psittiparus gularis hainanus Rothschild

Psittiparus gularis hainanus Rothschild, 1903: 7 (Mt. Wuchi, Hainan).

Now Paradoxornis gularis hainanus ( Rothschild, 1903) . See MacKinnon and Phillipps, 2000: 458.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 680109 , adult male, collected on Wu­Zhi Shan (5 Mt. Wuchi ), 188599N, 1098459E ( Times Atlas ), Hainan Island, Guangdong, China, in March 1903, by Zensaku Katsumata for Alan Owston. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In his original description, Rothschild designated as type the Katsumata specimen bearing the number 98a, one of eight specimens. All of the Katsumata specimens of this taxon bear the number 98 on the Japanese side of the Owston label, but only the above specimen has the number 98 rewritten in pen with an ‘‘a’’ added. The seven paratypes are: AMNH 680103, 680107– 680108, and 680110–680113, all collected on Hainan between 30 September 1902 and 5 April 1903 by Katsumata.

AMNH 199974, part of the same Katsumata 1903 collection, was purchased by AMNH from the dealer Rosenberg in the 1920s and did not come to AMNH through the Rothschild Collection, even though it bears a Rothschild Collection label. Rothschild frequently sent specimens he did not wish to keep to dealers such as Rosenberg for resale. Because the number of specimens listed in the original description equals the number that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, it seems certain that this specimen was sent to Rosenberg before Rothschild’s description of this taxon was published, and thus it is not a paratype.