Hirundo striolata formosae Mayr

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 : 35

Hirundo striolata formosae Mayr

Hirundo striolata formosae Mayr, 1941: 370 (Naihokosho, Central Formosa).

Now Cecropis striolata striolata Schlegel, 1844 . See

Dickinson and Dekker, 2001b: 136–137.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 560508 , adult female, collected at Naihokosho , Taiwan, National Republic of China, on 22 June 1907, by collectors for Alan Owston (no. 105). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number was cited in the original description. There are three paratypes: AMNH 560507 , female, Bankoro , 9 May 1907, collected by collectors for Alan Owston ; AMNH 95529 , immature male, 7 September 1907 ; and AMNH 95530 , female, 16 January 1908. These latter two specimens are labeled only ‘‘ Formosa’ ’ and bear labels from the Sapporo Museum of Natural History. They were received by AMNH in exchange from the Imperial College of Agriculture in 1909 and are labeled ‘‘ formosae ’’ in Mayr’s hand .

This species is usually cited as having been described by Temminck and Schlegel, 1847. However, Mees (1971: 238) called attention to the fact that previously it had been sufficiently described by Schlegel in 1844.