Microscelis viridescens myitkyinensis Deignan

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 : 88

Microscelis viridescens myitkyinensis Deignan

Microscelis viridescens myitkyinensis Deignan, 1948: 3

(elev. 1000 ft. along the Shingaw­Tanga road, Myitkyina District, Sagaing Division, Burma).

Now Iole virescens myitkyinensis ( Deignan, 1948) . See

Dickinson and Gregory, 2002, Dickinson and Dekker,

2002b: 103, and Dickinson et al., 2002b: 130.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 307094 , adult male, collected along the Shingaw­Tanga Road at 1000 ft, Myitkyina District , Sagaing Division, Myanmar, on 20 November 1938, by the Vernay–Cutting Expedition (no. 52).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the type was given in the original description. In addition to the holotype, three of the four paratypes listed by Deignan are in AMNH: AMNH 307095 , female, Tamu ; AMNH 565607 , female, Kabaing ; and AMNH 565610 , female, Gokteik Gorge. I did not find the specimen from Thailand .

The type locality is shown on the map in Stanford and Ticehurst (1938: opp. p. 68) and in Anthony (1941).