Hydrobata marila 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 : 108

[ Hydrobata marila Swinhoe ]

The type of this taxon was listed by Hartert (1920: 504) as being in the Rothschild Collection, but it did not come to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Instead, the specimen listed by Warren and Harrison (1971: 331) as a syntype is undoubtedly the holotype and was part of a 1939 Rothschild bequest to BMNH. In the original description, Swinhoe (1859a: 228) noted: ‘‘The specimen from which the above description is taken was a female, shot over one of the waterfalls on our inland expedition to the sulphur mines.’’