Spizixus cinereicapillus Swinhoe, 1871

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 : 78

Spizixus cinereicapillus Swinhoe

Spizixus cinereicapillus Swinhoe, 1871: 370 ( Formosa). Now Spizixos semitorques cinereicapillus Swinhoe,

1871. See Dickinson et al., 2002b: 117, 135.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 569114 and 569115, unsexed, collected at Fungshan, Taiwan, Republic of China, and AMNH 569116, unsexed, collected on Taiwan, Republic of China, in December 1865, for Robert Swinhoe. From the Swinhoe Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Based on one damaged skin, Swinhoe (1863: 290–291) had originally identified the Taiwan population as S. semitorques , the mainland Chinese form. Later, after receiving ‘‘a series from the Formosan mountains’’, he described them as Spizixus cinereicapillus ( Swinhoe, 1871: 370) . These specimens bear original labels identifying them as ‘‘ Spizixus semitorques ’’ with Robert Swinhoe’s initials. This has been crossed out and cinereicapillus written in by the same hand. These specimens had not previously been includ­ ed in the AMNH type collection.