Staphidia castaneiceps conjuncta Mayr

Mary, Croy, History, Bulletin Of The American Museum Of Natural, At, Central Park West, Street, Th, York, New & Ny, 2005, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 6. Passeriformes: Prunellidae, Turdidae, Orthonychidae, Timaliidae, Paradoxornithidae, Picathartidae, And Polioptilidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (292), pp. 1-132 : 99-100

Staphidia castaneiceps conjuncta Mayr

Staphidia castaneiceps conjuncta Mayr [in Stanford and Mayr], 1941: 86 (Chipwi­Laukkaung Road, Myitkyina district, Burma).

Now Yuhina castaniceps plumbeiceps (Godwin­ Austen, 1877). See Deignan, 1964b: 421, Inskipp et al., 1996: 191, and Robson, 2000: 470.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 305838 , adult male, collected on the Chipwi­Laukkaung Road , 2000 ft, Myanmar, on 20 December 1938, on the Vernay­Cutting Burma Expedition (no. 299).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. Seven males and one female were included by Mayr in his type series. Six of the seven paratypes are in AMNH and the seventh was probably a specimen Mayr (in Stanford and Mayr, 1940: 686) had borrowed from another institution. Paratypes are AMNH 143431, 306873–306875, and 591087–591088, each labeled conjuncta by Mayr.

An itinerary of the expedition is given in Stanford and Mayr (1940: 680–685) and in Anthony (1941: 37–56, map).

Siva torqueola Swinhoe

Siva torqueola Swinhoe, 1870b: 174 (Tingchow

Mountains, about 100 miles from Amoy (Chi­

na)).

Now Yuhina castaniceps torqueola (Swinhoe,

1870). See Cheng, 1987: 738, and Robson,

2000: 470.

SYNTYPE: AMNH 591111, unsexed, collected in the Ch’ang­t’ing (5 Tingchow) mountains, Fukien, China, in December 1867, by Robert Swinhoe. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: This taxon was based on two specimens collected in the Ch’ang­t’ing mountains. The other syntype is in BMNH ( Warren and Harrison, 1971: 565). The AMNH specimen had not previously been recognized as a syntype.

Seltzer (1962: 370) noted that the town of Ch’ang­t’ing (258479N, 1168179E, Times Atlas) was known as Tingchow until 1913.

Staphidia everetti Sharpe

Staphidia everetti Sharpe, 1887: 447 (Kina Balu).

Now Yuhina everetti ( Sharpe, 1887) . See Sibley and Monroe, 1990: 644, Inskipp et al., 1996: 191, and Smythies and Davison, 1999: 517– 518.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 591113 , adult female, collected on Kinabalu , 068039N, 1168329E (Times Atlas), Sabah, Malaysia, on 1 March 1887, by John Whitehead (no. 1044). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Sharpe did not designate a type or say how many specimens he had, although he includ­ ed descriptions of male and female, giving only one set of measurements for each sex. Two specimens now in AMNH bear Rothschild type labels for this taxon. AMNH 591113 also bears a complete Whitehead label with ‘‘Type RBS[harpe]’’ on the reverse in Sharpe’s hand. It has as well a small field tag with the Whitehead number 1044 and ‘‘f[emale]’’. AMNH 591112 has only a small field tag with the Whitehead number 1051 and ‘‘m[ale]’’ on one side and ‘‘co­type’’ on the reverse in hand unknown. Most, if not all, of the types described by Sharpe in his 1887 paper were in the part of the Whitehead collection purchased by Rothschild. For this paper, Sharpe had received from Whitehead (1893:185) ‘‘a pair of most birds I thought would be new’’ in advance of the arrival of the main collection, and apparently had done so in this case. Thus, these two birds would be syntypes. Hartert (1920: 479) designated the specimen that is now AMNH 591113 the lectotype by citing Whitehead’s field number, 1044. The male, AMNH 591112, then becomes the paralectotype, Whitehead no. 1051. There is no date, but the number ‘‘1051’’ is very close to the ‘‘1044’’ of the lectotype and it was certainly collected in 1887. Both the lectotype and the paralectotype are kept in the AMNH type collection because both bear Rothschild type labels, but a label has been added to each to explain their type status.

The five specimens of this taxon collected by Whitehead in 1887 and 1888 and listed by Sharpe and Whitehead (1889: 281) do not correlate with the six Whitehead specimens that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection.

Deignan (1964b: 422) treated everetti as a subspecies of Yuhina castaniceps as did Dickinson (2003: 621), with the comment that it is very distinct.