Pnoepyga pusilla tonkinensis Delacour and Jabouille

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Pnoepyga pusilla tonkinensis Delacour and Jabouille

Pnoepyga pusilla tonkinensis Delacour and Jabouille, 1930: 404 (Chapa ( Tonkin), altitude 1.600 mètres).

Now Pnoepyga pusilla pusilla Hodgson, 1845 .

See Deignan, 1964b: 294, and Robson, 2000: 456–457.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 292189 , adult male, collected at Chapa , 228219N, 1038499E ( Hennache and Dickinson, 2000: 624), Viet Nam, on 12 November 1929, by Jean Delacour and Pierre Jabouille. Collected on the Fifth Expedition to French Indo­China (no. 818).

COMMENTS: The unique field number of the holotype was cited in the original description. Of the 13 paratypes, five came to AMNH: AMNH 291468—291471 , two females and two sex?, from Chapa ; and AMNH 291472 , female, from Loquiho .

For information on the types of taxa named by Delacour and his colleagues on the seven ‘‘French Indo­China’’ expeditions, see Hennache and Dickinson (2000). For a report on the birds collected on this fifth expedition, see Delacour (1930).

Pnoepyga everetti Rothschild

Pnoepyga everetti Rothschild, 1897: 168 (South Flores).

Now Pnoepyga pusilla everetti Rothschild, 1897 . See White and Bruce, 1986: 325.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 573692 , adult male, collected on south Flores Island, 3500 ft, Indonesia, in November 1896, by collectors for Alfred Everett. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild did not designate a type in his original description, mentioning both males and females and saying only that Everett had sent a series. Hartert (1897b: 516), in his report on Everett’s south Flores collection, also did not mention a type. Hartert (1922a: 366) listed the type as a male collected on south Flores, 3500 ft, in November 1896. This applies to three of the five specimens now at AMNH. However, AMNH 573692 bears the Rothschild type label, written by Rothschild himself; Everett’s field label is also so marked by Rothschild. Because it was Rothschild’s intent that this specimen be the type, and because it was so cataloged at AMNH and has been considered the type for more than 100 years, I hereby designate AMNH 573692 the lectotype to avoid possible confusion in interpreting the older literature. Paralectotypes are AMNH 573693 and 573694, males, and 573695, female, all collected in November 1896; and AMNH 573696, female, collected in October 1896.

Everett made Nanga Ramau (5 Nanga Roma) in south Flores his headquarters and noted that his collectors reached about 5000 ft in the mountains near the coast ( Hartert, 1897b: 513).

Pnoepyga pusilla timorensis Mayr Pnoepyga pusilla timorensis Mayr, 1944: 157

(Mt. Mutis (2000 meters), Timor).

Now Pnoepyga pusilla timorensis Mayr, 1944 .

See White and Bruce, 1986: 3252326.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 308002 , adult male, collected on Mt. Mutis , 2000 m, 098359S, 1248159E (Times Atlas), Timor Island , Indonesia, on 22 February 1932, by Georg Stein (no. 3252). From the Stein Expedition to Timor and Sumba.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. Mayr (1944: 135, 157) did not say how many specimens were collected, only mentioning a series of males and females. Paratypes are: AMNH 345838–345863, of which the following were sent to ZMB after the end of World War II, in April 1955: AMNH 345838, 345839, 345848, 345849, 345855, and 345859.

See Turdus poliocephalus sterlingi for an account of this expedition by Georg and Clara Stein. No specimens of Pnoepyga pusilla timorensis were sent to Lisbon, as Mt. Mutis is not in former Portuguese Timor. Stein did not write an account of this expedition as his home and all of his notebooks and belongings were lost in World War II ( Stresemann, 1967: 186–187).

Neomixis flavoviridis Hartert Neomixis flavoviridis Hartert, 1924b: 35 (Anala­

mazastra, Madagascar).

Now Hartertula flavoviridis (Hartert, 1924) . See

Dee, 1986: 82, Cibois et al., 1999, and 2001.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 599072 , adult male, collected at Analamazaotra (5 Analamazastra), 188569S, 488259E ( USBGN, 1955a), Madagascar, in November 1922, by a French collector for William F.H. Rosenberg ( Hartert, 1928: 214). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert had only the single specimen when he named this species. Later, Stresemann (1925: 186) named the genus Hartertula with Neomixis flavoviridis as the type species.

Based on their studies using mitochondrial DNA, Cibois et al. (1999, 2001) found Hartertula flavoviridis to be part of a warbler radiation on Madagascar and not related to African and Asian Timaliidae .

Stachyrhidopsis rufifrons ambigua Harington

Stachyrhidopsis rufifrons ambigua Harington, 1915: 628 (in key), 631 (Gunjong, N. Cachar).

Now Stachyris ambigua ambigua ( Harington, 1915) . See Deignan, 1964b: 303–304, Sibley and Monroe, 1990: 635, and Dickinson, 2003: 606.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 589896 , adult male, collected at Gunjong , 258199N, 938019E ( Collar et al., 2001: 2588), northern Cachar, Assam Province, India, on 26 December 1895, by E.C. Stuart Baker. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In his original description, Harington noted that the type, bearing the above data, was in the Rothschild Collection. Of six specimens of this form, AMNH 589896 bears the Rothschild type label and is the only one with the correct data. The five additional specimens are paratypes: AMNH 589897 , male, 29 October 1895 ; AMNH 589898 , male, 3 November 1895 ; AMNH 589899 , female, 1 November 1895 ; AMNH 589900 , female, 26 December 1895 ; and AMNH 589901 , male, 14 April 1895. All are from Gunjong .

Ali and Ripley (1996a:169) and Inskipp et al. (1996: 185) treated ambigua as a subspecies of Stachyris rufifrons . See Cibois et al. (2002) for recent molecular studies of this species.

Stachyris ruficeps planicola Mayr

Stachyris ruficeps planicola Mayr [in Stanford and Mayr], 1941a: 70 (Shingaw, 750 ft., Myitkyina district, Northern Burma).

Now Stachyris rufifrons planicola Mayr, 1941 . See Robson, 2000: 458.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 305675 , adult male, collected at Shingaw, 750 ft, 258399N, 978539E ( Deignan, 1964b: 303), Myitkyina

District, Myanmar, on 17 December 1938, on the Vernay­Cutting Burma Expedition (no. 225), by Harold E. Anthony ( Stanford and Mayr, 1941a: 70).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. One paratype was collected: AMNH 306697 , adult female collected at Tanga, 900 ft, Myitkyina District . For additional information on collecting localities and a map, see Anthony (1941) ; and for a popular account of the expedition, see Anthony (1939).

Deignan (1964b: 303–304), Sibley and Monroe (1990: 635), and Dickinson (2003: 606) accorded ambigua full species status and treated planicola as a subspecies of S. ambigua . See Cibois et al. (2002) for recent molecular studies of this species.