Carpodacus puniceus kilianensis Vaurie, 1956

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 : 73

Carpodacus puniceus kilianensis Vaurie

Carpodacus puniceus kilianensis Vaurie, 1956b: 20 (north side of the Kilian Pass at 15,000 feet, western Kun Lun, Sinkiang).

Now Pyrrhospiza punicea kilianensis (Vaurie, 1956) . See Vaurie, 1959: 643–644; Howell et al., 1968: 281; Dickinson, 2003: 755; Rasmussen and Anderton, 2005: 567–568; and Clement, 2010: 596.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 258993 (not 258994), adult female, collected on the north side of Kilian Davan , 15,000 ft, 36.45N, 78.05E ( Times atlas), western Kun Lun mountains, Xinjiang (5 Sinkiang), China, on 5 August 1893, by W.L. Abbott. Received on exchange from the Smithsonian Institution (no. 150313).

COMMENTS: In the original description, Vaurie cited the AMNH number of the holotype that appeared on its label and (on p. 23) gave measurements of three males and two females (including the type). There is one paratype in AMNH: AMNH 295262, adult male, above Tar-Sar, 12,000 ft, Kashmir, 18 August 1908, A.E. Ward (no. 3042). Vaurie added a note to the label concerning this locality: ‘‘apparently north of 34 ° and west of 79 °.’’

Until recently, this species was included in the genus Carpodacus (e.g., Dickinson, 2003: 755); however, it was originally described in the monotypic genus Pyrrhospiza and because of its striking differences from other rosefinches Rasmussen and Anderton (2005: 567–568) returned the species to Pyrrhospiza , as did Clement (2010: 596).

When this holotype was received on exchange from the Smithsonian Institution in 1928, it was given the number 258993 in the AMNH catalog. An incorrect number was put on the specimen label and published as the number of the holotype. Other specimens received on exchange at this time are correctly numbered.