Cyanopica cyanus interposita Hartert, 1917

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 : 118

Cyanopica cyanus interposita Hartert

Cyanopica cyanus interposita Hartert, 1917: 493 ( Corea and Tsin-ling Mts.).

Now Cyanopica cyanus interposita Hartert, 1917 . See Hartert, 1919: 124; Vaurie, 1959: 147; Blake and Vaurie, 1962: 245; Cheng, 1987: 538; Dickinson et al., 2004: 117; and dos Anjos, 2009: 598–599.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 676157 , adult male, collected at Taibai Shan (= Tai-Pai-Shan), 33.57N, 107.45E (BirdLife International, 2001: 2575), Quinling (= Tsinling) Mountains , Shaanxi, China, on 20 November 1905, by collectors for Alan Owston, no. 20915. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert noted that he had 45 specimens from the Tsinling Mountains, one from Sungpan and one from Peking, and saw seven specimens from Korea in BMNH. From them he designated as the type of interposita a male collected at Tai-pai-shan, Tsinling Mountains on 20 November 1905. There were two male specimens collected at that locality on that date, and by subsequently listing the specimen bearing the number 20915 as the type, he ( Hartert, 1919: 124) designated it the lectotype. This is apparently a number adapted by Hartert from the date and written by him on the Rothschild Museum label of the lectotype, as the Rothschild Collection was not cataloged. The specimen also bears an Owston label and a Rothschild type label.

The specimen from Sungpan and the one from Peking did not come to AMNH; 42 of the 45 Tai-Pai-Shan specimens were cataloged at AMNH. The 41 paralectotypes are: AMNH 676122–676156 , 676158–676162 , 454361 , 19 males and 22 females, collected July-November 1905, by collectors for Alan Owston, a specimen dealer in Yokohama. The seven specimens from Korea that Hartert saw in BMNH are also paralectotypes .