Anthreptes malacensis birgitae Salomonsen, 1953

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 132

Anthreptes malacensis birgitae Salomonsen

Anthreptes malacensis birgitae Salomonsen, 1953: 251 (Barit, Abra Prov., N. Luzon).

Now Anthreptes griseigularis birgitae Salomonsen, 1953 . See Dickinson et al., 1991: 377, and Cheke and Mann, 2008a: 247.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 685781 , adult male, collected at Barit , 17.19N, 120.42E ( Dickinson et al., 1991: 415), Abra Province, Luzon Island , Philippines, on 3 December 1894, by John Whitehead (no. 774). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Salomonsen cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and said that he examined 13 Luzon specimens of birgitae at AMNH, two at FMNH, and three at USNM. The follow-

ing are the 12 AMNH paratypes: collected by E.H. Porter, Tayabas, AMNH 94281 , male, 17 March 1904, AMNH 94282 , female, 12 March 1904, AMNH 94283 , female, 12 March 1904 ; Sorgoson, AMNH 94284 , male, 20 August 1903 ; collected by J.T. Zimmer, Mt. Maquiling , AMNH 296471 , male, 27 December 1914 ; collected by A. Everett, S. Luzon, AMNH 685775 , male, AMNH 685776 , male, AMNH 685777 , female ; Laguna de Bai, AMNH 685778 , male, 11 January 1895, AMNH 685779 , male, 11 January 1895, AMNH 685780 , female, 11 January 1895 ; collected by Whitehead, Barit, Abra Prov., AMNH 685782 , female, 1 December 1894. AMNH 685776 was exchanged to ANSP after this form was described .