Dicrurus balicassius abraensis Vaurie, 1947

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 55

Dicrurus balicassius abraensis Vaurie

Dicrurus balicassius abraensis Vaurie, 1947: 2 (Bucay, Abra Province, northern Luzon, Philippines).

Now Dicrurus balicassius abraensis Vaurie, 1947 . See Vaurie, 1949b: 277; 1962: 148; Dickinson et al., 1991: 290–291; Dickinson, 2003: 492; and Rocamora and Yeatman-Berthelot, 2009: 215– 216.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 672673 , adult male, collected at Bucay , 17.32N, 120.43E ( Dickinson et al., 1991: 416), Abra Province, northern Luzon , Philippines, on 15 November 1894, by John Whitehead (no. 643). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Vaurie cited the AMNH number of the holotype and listed three paratypes. Vaurie borrowed specimens from a number of institutions, and only one of the paratypes appears to be in AMNH: AMNH 672674, female, Cape Egaño, northern Luzon, 1 May 1895, collected by Whitehead (no. A341).