Emberiza cia omissa Rothschild, 1921

LeCroy, Mary, 2012, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 10. Passeriformes: Emberizidae: Emberizinae, Catamblyrhynchinae, Cardinalinae, Thraupinae, And Tersininae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2012 (368), pp. 1-125 : 5

Emberiza cia omissa Rothschild

Emberiza cia omissa Rothschild, 1921: 60 (Si Taipaishan, Tsin-ling Mountains).

Now Emberiza godlewskii omissa Rothschild, 1921 . See Hartert, 1928: 197, LeCroy and Dickinson, 2001: 188, 189, and Dickinson, 2003: 777.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 716683 , female, collected at Si , Taipai Shan (5 Taipaishang, as on label), Tsinling Mountains , China, on 2 November 1905, by Owston’s Japanese collectors (O.C. no. 83). ‘‘No. 1791 Tring Mus.’’ is written on the Owston label, apparently by Rothschild. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Rothschild gave the number of the holotype as ‘‘No. 1791, Tring Museum’ ’ and the collecting locality as Si Taipaishan , Tsin-ling Mountains. AMNH 716683 is the only specimen to have this number added. There are eight paratypes: AMNH 716676–716682 and AMNH 716684 , four males and four females, collected at the type locality between 22 July and 2 November 1905 by Owston’s Japanese Collectors ; all bear the O.C. number 83.