Lanius schach kathiawarensis Koelz

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 : 102-103

Lanius schach kathiawarensis Koelz

Lanius schach kathiawarensis Koelz, 1950: 7 (Jamwala, Junagadh, Kathiawar Peninsula, India).

Now Lanius schach caniceps Blyth, 1846 . See Rand, 1960: 350, and Harris and Franklin, 2000: 207.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 803069 , adult male, collected at Jamwala, 20°57′N, 70°44′E (J. Hinshaw, personal commun.), Saurashtra, Kathiawar Peninsula, Gujarat, India, on 12 February 1949, by Walter Koelz.

COMMENTS: Although said in the original description to be deposited in AMNH, the types of taxa described by Koelz (1950) were in fact deposited in FMNH. To avoid confusion, the types were later sent to AMNH, but this specimen also bears FMNH 246171. Only the type was mentioned in the original description.

Junagadh is a former princely state of India, merged in 1949 with Saurashtra ( Seltzer, 1962: 889).

Lanius tephronotus lahulensis Koelz Lanius tephronotus lahulensis Koelz, 1950: 7 (Kolung,

Lahul, Punjab, India).

Now Lanius tephronotus lahulensis Koelz, 1950 . See

Harris and Franklin, 2000: 210.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 803068 , adult male, collected at Kolung , Lahul, Punjab, India, on 15 June 1936, by Walter Koelz.

COMMENTS: Mayr (1947) discussed the confused taxonomy of Lanius tephronotus and concluded that the name tephronotus should apply to the Tibetan population, leaving the Lahul population without a name. Koelz supplied the above name without mentioning the possibility that Collurio jounotus Hodgson might be available ( Dunajewski, 1939: 37–39). However, Hodgson (1844: 84) listed the name without description, giving only the number of the unpublished painting (no. 815). As Gray and Gray (1846: 100) used the name L. tephronotus for Hodgson’s specimens, a description apparently was never forthcoming, and jounotus is a nomen nudum.

As for the previous Koelz type, this specimen was returned to AMNH by FMNH and bears FMNH 246175.

Lanius validirostris tertius Salomonsen Lanius validirostris tertius Salomonsen, 1953: 278 (Mt.

Dulungan (5000 ft altitude), Mindoro).

Now Lanius validirostris tertius Salomonsen, 1953 . See

Dickinson et al., 1991: 370, and Harris and Franklin,

2000: 211.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 662026 , adult male, collected on Mt. Dulangan , 5000 ft, Halcon Range , Mindoro Island , Philippines, on 8 December ‘‘1896’’ [= 1895], by John Whitehead (no. B.26). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the type was cited in the original description. The Whitehead label bears the date 1896, but this was undoubtedly a slip of the pen, occurring when his specimens were labeled after they reached England (See Hartert, 1922b: 367). Whitehead was on Mindoro from mid­October 1895 to mid­February 1896 ( Ogilvie­Grant, 1896: 459). The female paratype, AMNH 662027, is correctly dated 7 February 1896. A pencilled notation, in a hand unknown, queries the sex of the holotype.

See Ripley and Rabor (1958: 1–2, 80) for a map and a description of this locality.

Lanius graecus Brehm

Lanius graecus Brehm, 1855: 84 ( Griechenland).

Now Lanius minor minor Gmelin, 1788 . See Hartert, 1918b: 28, Lefranc and Worfolk, 1997: 119, and Harris and Franklin, 2000: 163.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 457568 , adult male, collected in Attica, on 20 May 1845. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: This is the only specimen of L. minor collected in Greece that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection; it is labeled graecus in Brehm’s hand and was considered the type by Hartert (1918b: 28). It is an aberrant individual with the outer three pairs of rectrices almost entirely white.The probability is remote that Brehm had more than one such specimen, and I consider it the holotype.