Cissa katsumatae Rothschild

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 : 117

Cissa katsumatae Rothschild

Cissa katsumatae Rothschild, 1903b: 9 (Mt. Wuchi, Hainan).

Now Cissa hypoleuca katsumatae Rothschild, 1903 . See Hartert, 1919: 124; Blake and Vaurie, 1962: 244; Dickinson, 2003: 510; Dickinson et al., 2004c: 90–91; 2004b: 117; and dos Anjos, 2009: 597.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 676869 , female, collected on Mount Wuchi , 18.47N, 109.42E (BirdLife International, 2001: 2577), Hainan Island , China, on 24 March 1903, by Zensaku Katsumata (no. 183). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild noted in the original description that he had a single specimen bearing the number ‘‘183A,’’ collected on Mount Wuchi, Hainan, 24.iii.1903, by Katsumata. The letter ‘‘A’’ does not appear on this specimen, but it is the only 1903 specimen. Later specimens are marked ‘‘B183.’’ The number ‘‘183’’ appears on all the Katsumata specimens of this subspecies.