Phoenicurus frontalis sinae Hartert

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Phoenicurus frontalis sinae Hartert

Phoenicurus frontalis sinae Hartert, 1918b: 78 (Kansu) .

Now Phoenicurus frontalis Vigors, 1832 . See Ripley, 1964: 78, and Cheng, 1987: 597.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 578483 , adult male, collected in Gansu (5 Kansu) Prov., central China, in March 1884, by Nikolai M. Przewalski. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert designated as type an adult male collected by Przewalski in Kansu in March 1884. AMNH 578483 is the only such specimen that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Hartert (1918b: 78) noted that he compared 38 specimens of the new form with 16 typical P. f. frontalis . There are 38 specimens collected at Tai­pai­shan, Tsinling Mts., by collectors for Alan Owston (AMNH 578490–578527), four of which are immatures and juveniles (routinely omitted from Hartert’s totals). In addition, there are (besides the holotype) two specimens collected by Przewalski in Kansu, AMNH 578484 (in 1874) and 578485 (in July, no year), and AMNH 578487 collected by David on 2 November 1869 at Moupin (includ­ ed by Hartert in the range). All 41 of these specimens would have been available to Hartert and are considered paratypes.

Sibley and Monroe (1990: 537) treated Phoenicurus in the tribe Saxicolini , subfamily Muscicapinae ; Dickinson (2003: 681) placed it in the subfamily Saxicolinae , family Muscicapidae .