Montifringilla brandti walteri Hartert

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 71

Montifringilla brandti walteri Hartert

Montifringilla brandti walteri Hartert, 1904a: 138 (Sung-Pan, Sue-shan, in Szetschwan im nordwestlichen China).

Now Leucosticte brandti haematopygia (Gould, 1853) . See Hartert, 1919a: 158; Vaurie, 1949: 27–28; Vaurie, 1959: 622–623; Howell et al., 1968: 258–259; Dickinson, 2003: 752; and Clement and Arkhipov, 2010: 571–572.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 712199 , male?, collected at Sung-pan , Sue-shan , Sichuan, China, on 6 April 1894 (Russian date, according to Hartert, 1919a: 158), by Berezowsky (no. 286). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert had a single specimen and noted that Rothschild (1902: 167) had mentioned it earlier as being ‘‘darker than the darkest of our Himalayan birds.’’

Vaurie (1959: 622–623) and Dickinson (2003: 752) recognized walteri; however, Howell et al. (1968: 258–259), while recognizing walteri, included a footnote (initialed R.A.P[aynter], Jr.) stating that Vaurie [in 1968] considered walteri to be a synonym of haematopygia. Clement and Arkhipov (2010: 571–572) agreed with this.