Pycnonotus cafer melanchimus Deignan, 1949

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 : 80

Pycnonotus cafer melanchimus Deignan

Pycnonotus cafer melanchimus Deignan, 1949: 278 (Rangoon, Rangoon Town District, Pegu Division, Burma).

Now Pycnonotus cafer melanchimus Deignan, 1949 . See Dickinson and Dekker, 2002b: 98–99, and Dickinson et al., 2002b: 122.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 568717 , adult male, collected at Rangoon, 16°47′N, 96°10′E (Times Atlas), Rangoon Town District , Pegu Division , Myanmar, on 2 January 1906 by Major H.H. Harington (no. 279). From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the type was cited in the original description. Deignan labeled and initialed the specimens in his type series that he had borrowed from AMNH . Paratypes at AMNH are: males: Kyaukpadaung, AMNH 568721 ; Zaingganaing , AMNH 568716 ; and Rangoon, AMNH 568718 ; female: Rangoon, AMNH 568719 .