Oenanthe isabellina kargasi 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 : 25

Oenanthe isabellina kargasi Koelz

Oenanthe isabellina kargasi Koelz, 1939: 66 (Kargasi Pass, Afghanistan).

Now Oenanthe isabellina (Temminck, 1829) . See Vaurie, 1959: 350–351, and Dickinson, 2003: 685.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 465990 , adult female, collected at Kargasi Pass , Afghanistan, on 8 August 1937, by Walter Koelz.

COMMENTS: The above holotype was the only female collected at Kargasi Pass on 8 August and is marked ‘‘type’’ by Koelz. He listed 10 paratypes, five of them from the type locality. However, in addition to the holotype, only four specimens from Kargasi Pass were cataloged. The nine paratypes at AMNH are: AMNH 465981– 465983, 465986–465989, 465995, and 465991.

Sibley and Monroe (1990: 541) treated Oenanthe in the tribe Saxicolini , subfamily Muscicapinae ; Dickinson (2003: 684) placed it in the subfamily Saxicolinae , family Muscicapidae .

While Koelz’s label has only ‘‘Kargasi Pass’’, the Koelz itinerary places Koelz at Jurm, 368509N, 708529E (Times Atlas), Kargasi Pass, on 8 August 1937. Molecular stud­ ies of Oenanthe isabellina are reported by Wink et al. (2002a, 2002b).