Pericrocotus sordidus Swinhoe

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 : 76

Pericrocotus sordidus Swinhoe

Pericrocotus sordidus Swinhoe, 1863: 284 (Amoy) .

Now Pericrocotus cantonensis Swinhoe, 1861 . See Sibley and Monroe, 1990: 484, Dickinson and Dekker, 2002a: 16, and Dickinson et al., 2002a: 41, 50.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 563767 , immature male, collected at Xiamen (= Amoy), 24°26′N, 118°04′E (Times Atlas), China, on 29 September 1859, by Robert Swinhoe. From the Swinhoe Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Swinhoe (1863: 284) stated that he had a single male specimen from Amoy, ‘‘not quite mature’’, collected on the above date. In bill size and shape, this holotype matches P. cantonensis . This specimen had not previously been recognized as a type.

Peters et al. (1960: 207) considered cantonensis to be a subspecies of P. roseus .