Pomatorhinus ruficollis similis Rothschild, 1926

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Pomatorhinus ruficollis similis Rothschild Pomatorhinus ruficollis similis Rothschild, 1926b:

261 (hills round Tengyueh).

Now Pomatorhinus ruficollis similis Rothschild,

1926. See MacKinnon and Phillips, 2000: 429–

430.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 586115 , adult male, collected near Tengchong or T’eng­ch’ung (5 Tengyueh), 6000 –7000 ft, 258029N, 988289E (Times Atlas), Yunnan, China, in March 1922, by George Forrest (no. 1391). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Rothschild cited Forrest’s unique field number for the holotype and listed 35 paratypes collected by Forrest. Of these, 33 came to AMNH: AMNH 586114 and 586116– 586147.

For a discussion of the types of taxa described by Rothschild based on the collections made by George Forrest in Yunnan, see LeCroy and Dickinson (2001).

Pomatorhinus ruficollis bhamoensis Mayr

Pomatorhinus ruficollis bhamoensis Mayr [in Stanford and Mayr], 1941a: 65 (Sinlum, Bhamo).

Now Pomatorhinus ruficollis bhamoensis Mayr, 1941 . See Dickinson, 2003: 603.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 586089 , adult male,

collected at Sinlum­Kaba, east of Bhamo,

Myanmar, on 24 April 1908, by Herbert H. Harington (no. 125). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. There are two paratypes: AMNH 586088 , male, Kha­Cho, 4000 ft, 19 March 1908 ; and AMNH 586090 , female, Sinlum­Kaba, 3 May 1908, both collected by Harington.

Harington (1909: 107) described his collecting localities: ‘‘I spent a very pleasant and profitable two months of my leave collecting in the hills due East of Bhamo, one month being spent at Sinlum­Kaba, a small hill station of about 5 500 feet above sea level.’’ Bhamo is at 248159N, 978159E (Times Atlas).

Robson (2000: 454) considered bhamoensis a synonym of P. r. albipectus .