Herpornis xantholeuca interposita Hartert

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 : 102

Herpornis xantholeuca interposita Hartert

Herpornis xantholeuca interposita Hartert, 1917a: 20 (Temangoh, Upper Perak).

Now Erpornis zantholeuca interposita (Hartert, 1917) . See Cibois et al., 2002: 385–386, and Dickinson, 2003: 622.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 591579 , adult male, collected at Temengor (5 Temangoh), 058209N, 1018219E (Times Atlas), Perak, Malaysia, on 24 July 1909 (not 1911), by Cecil Boden Kloss. From the Herbert C. Robinson Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, the type was said to be an adult male in the Rothschild Collection from Temangoh collected by Boden Kloss on 24 July 1911, a misprint that was corrected without comment by Hartert (1920: 478). The above specimen is the only one collected at Temangoh that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, and it bears the Rothschild type label. Paratypes are AMNH 591577–591578 and 591580–591586.

In their recent molecular studies of bab­ blers in the genera Yuhina and Stachyris, Cibois et al. (2002: 385–386) found that Yuhina zantholeuca was not closely related to typical members of the genus Yuhina and suggested resurrection of the genus Erpornis Hodgson, 1844 , for this species, pending further studies on its exact relationships.