Garrulax monachus Swinhoe, 1870

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 : 90

Garrulax monachus Swinhoe

Garrulax monachus Swinhoe, 1870a: 248 (Hainan) .

Now Garrulax chinensis monachus Swinhoe, 1870 . See Cheng, 1987: 679, and MacKinnon and Phillipps, 2000: 416.

SYNTYPE: AMNH 587140, adult unsexed, collected on Hainan Island, 198009N, 1098309E (USBGN, 1956a), Guangdong, China, in February 1863, by Robert Swinhoe. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Swinhoe did not designate a type or say exactly how many specimens he had. There were at least four—two that were shot on 10 February as he was journeying inland and two that died in captivity ( Swinhoe, 1870a: 249–250). Therefore, Warren and Harrison (1971: 361) were incorrect in saying that the two syntypes are in the BMNH. The above specimen is the one specifically mentioned by Swinhoe (1870a: 249) in the original description as having been shot in the foot and caught by hand, as it has a broken leg. The Rothschild label had been so noted and marked ‘‘co­type’’ (5 syntype). However, it was not listed by Hartert in any of his type lists and had not previously been included in the AMNH type collection.