Alauda coelivox Swinhoe, 1859

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 29

Alauda coelivox Swinhoe

Alauda coelivox Swinhoe, 1859b: 6723 (Amoy...

plains on the western side of Formosa and... on the high hill of Kooshan at Foochow).

Now Alauda gulgula coelivox Swinhoe, 1859 . See Dickinson et al., 2001a: 93.

SYNTYPE: AMNH 555633, adult female, collected on Xiamen (= Amoy) Island, China, on 14 November 1857, by Robert Swinhoe. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Swinhoe described male, female, and nestling but did not give the number of specimens or dates of collection. The above specimen is the only Swinhoe specimen of this taxon in AMNH collected before 1859; it had not previously been included in the AMNH type collection. There are several other syntypes in BMNH ( Warren and Harrison, 1971: 123) .