Stactocichla merulina minima Koelz

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 : 91-92

Stactocichla merulina minima Koelz

Stactocichla merulina minima Koelz, 1954: 3 (Tasubum, North Burma).

Now Garrulax merulinus merulinus Blyth, 1851 . See Deignan, 1964b: 368, and Robson, 2000: 447.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 409533 , adult female, collected at Tasubum , 268039N, 968179E ( USBGN, 1966), Myanmar, on 30 January 1935, by the Vernay­Hopwood Chindwin Expedition (no. 219).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. A second AMNH specimen was listed as a ‘‘cotype’’, used in the sense of a paratype. This paratype is AMNH 409532 (Vernay­ Hopwood no. 216), male, from Pumsin, Myanmar, collected on 29 January 1935. Mayr (1938: 286) called attention to differences exhibited by these two specimens, but refrained from naming them, stressing the need for fresh material from other areas for comparison. Tasubum is shown on the map in Mayr (1938: 279).

Garrulax merulinus obscurus Delacour and Jabouille

Garrulax merulinus obscurus Delacour and Jabouille, 1930: 399 (Chapa ( Tonkin), altitude 1.600 m.).

Now Garrulax merulinus obscurus Delacour and Jabouille, 1930 . See Robson, 2000: 447, and Hennache and Dickinson, 2000: 620.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 292200 , adult male, collected at Cha Pa , 1600 m, 228209N, 1038509E (Times Atlas), Vietnam, on 12 December 1929, by Jean Delacour and Pierre Jabouille (no. 2661).

COMMENTS: The unique field number of the holotype was given in the original description. The type series consisted of nine males and five females collected at Cha Pa between 7 November and 15 December 1929 and a male from Xieng­Khouang, Laos, collected on 6 January 1926. Five of the 14 paratypes came to AMNH: three males and two females from Cha Pa, AMNH 290949– 290953.

See Hennache and Dickinson (2000) for information on this expedition.

Trochalopteron canorum owstoni Rothschild

Trochalopteron canorum owstoni Rothschild,

1903: 8 (Mt. Wuchi, Hainan).

Now Garrulax canorus owstoni ( Rothschild,

1903). See Cheng, 1987: 690, and MacKinnon

and Phillipps, 2000: 420.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 586740 , adult female, collected on Wu­Zhi Shan (5 Mt. Wuchi ), 188599N, 1098459E ( Times Atlas ), Hainan Island, Guangdong, China, on 29 March 1903, by Zensaku Katsumata for Alan Owston. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Rothschild designated as type a female from Mt. Wuchi, collected on 29 March 1903. The above specimen is the only female collected on that date. Rothschild (1903: 8) noted that Katsumata collected 15 specimens on Mt. Wuchi and at Utoshi. Later, Hartert (1910c: 233–234) listed 10 specimens from those localities, but apparently did not include the type. Six specimens in addition to the holo­ type came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection and are here considered paratypes: AMNH 586741–586744, males collected in March, April, and May 1903 (Hartert listed only April and May specimens; the two March males were collected on 29 and 31 March); AMNH 586745, female collected in May, all on Mt. Wuchi; and 586748, male collected 20 March at Utoshi. Specimens dat­ ed December 1903 were collected after this name was published, in October 1903. I cannot determine whether two specimens collected at Secha in April 1902 are paratypes because this locality was not mentioned in the original description, and I do not know when the specimens came into Rothschild’s possession.

Ianthocincla lineatum [sic]

gilgit Hartert

Ianthocincla lineatum [sic] gilgit Hartert, 1909a: 636 (Gilgit).

Now Garrulax lineatus gilgit (Hartert, 1909) . See Ali and Ripley, 1996b: 46.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 586711 , adult female, collected at Gilgit , 358559N, 748189E, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan ( Collar et al., 2001: 2643), on 3 February 1880, by J. Scully. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, the type was said to be a female from Gilgit, collected on 3 February 1880. The above specimen is the only one that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection.

Ianthocincla lineatum [sic] grisescentior Hartert Ianthocincla lineatum [sic] grisescentior Hartert, 1909a: 636 (Simla).

Now Garrulax lineatus lineatus (Vigors, 1831) . See Ticehurst and Whistler, 1924: 472–473, and Ali and Ripley, 1996b: 46.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 586706 , unsexed adult, collected at Simla , 318079N, 778099E (Times Atlas), Himachal Pradesh, India, on 15 November 1880, by Henry J. Elwes. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert said that the type was in the Rothschild Collection and that it bore the number ‘‘1548’’. This is not a number that appears on the original Elwes label, but it has been written, apparently by Hartert, on the Rothschild type label. There are three paratypes in AMNH, all collected by Elwes: AMNH 586705, unsexed, Cholmoddy, Kashmir, 1880, and AMNH 586707 and 586708, unsexed, Simla, 17 November 1880.