Mesia argentauris vernayi Mayr and Greenway

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 : 94

Mesia argentauris vernayi Mayr and Greenway

Mesia argentauris vernayi Mayr and Greenway, 1938: 3 (Hai Bum, Upper Burma).

Now Leiothrix argentauris vernayi ( Mayr and Greenway, 1938) . See Smythies 1986: 301, and Robson, 2000: 462.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 409644 , adult male, collected at Hai Bum , Myanmar, on 1 March 1935, on the Vernay­Hopwood Chindwin Expedition (no. 525).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. There are two paratypes: AMNH 409645, female from Hai Bum, and AMNH 409646, female from Dalu. The birds collected on the Vernay­Hopwood Chindwin Expedition were reported on by Mayr (1938), who included a map showing collecting localities. On this map, Hai Bum is shown at ca. 268109N, 958359E.