Larvivora ruficeps Hartert

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Larvivora ruficeps Hartert

Larvivora ruficeps Hartert, 1907a: 50 (Tai­paishan, Tsin­ling Mountains).

Now Luscinia ruficeps (Hartert, 1907) . See Vaurie, 1959: 381, and Cheng, 1987: 582.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 579873 , adult male, collected on Tai­bai Mountain (5 Tai­paishan), Qinling Mountains , Shaanxi (see Cheng, 1987: 582), China, on 13 July 1905, by Owston’s Japanese collectors (no. 1217). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert gave the unique field number for the holotype. He noted that there were three specimens in the Rothschild Collection and described only the male. The two male paratypes are AMNH 579874 and 579875, from the same locality as the type and collected on 12 and 10 July 1905, respectively. All three males have the number 121 on the front of the label, but no. 1217 has been written by different hand on the back of the label of the holotype. The coordinates of Tai Bai (spelled Tai Pai) are 298069N, 1178389E (Times Atlas).

There are also two female specimens in the series, now correctly identified as Luscinia ruficeps but not mentioned by Hartert in the original description, probably because he was unsure of their identity at that time. Lat­ er, Hartert (1907d: 621–623) discussed the 10 specimens of three species of ‘‘ Larvivora ’’ collected by Owston’s collectors on Mt. Tai­bai in July 1905, all of which came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection (although one specimen of obscura was later exchanged with BMNH). He then listed four males of obscura, three males and one female of ruficeps , and one male and one female of ‘‘ davidi ’’ (5 Luscinia pectardens , see Vaurie, 1959: 385), but he mentioned that the female of ‘‘ davidi ’’ was very similar to the female of ruficeps . Still later, Hartert (1910a: 740–742) identified both females as ruficeps and based his description of the female of ‘‘ davidi ’’ on the published description by Oustalet. I do not consider that either of these females has type status.

Ripley (1964: 45) included this species in the genus Erithacus .

Larvivora wickhami Baker Larvivora wickhami Baker, 1916: 298 (Chin

Hills).

Now Luscinia brunnea wickhami ( Baker, 1916) .

See Robson, 2000: 403.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 579882 , unsexed adult, collected in the Chin Hills , 5000 ft, 228309N, 938309E ( USBGN, 1955c), Myanmar, in April 1916, by Percy Wickham. From the Rothschild Collection

COMMENTS: The original description was based on a single specimen in the Rothschild Collection bearing the above data, collected by Wickham. The specimen is unsexed but is in female plumage.

Ali and Ripley (1997: 229) included this species in the genus Erithacus and did not recognize wickhami .

Tarsiger indicus formosanus Hartert Tarsiger indica formosanus Hartert, 1910b: 32

(Mt. Arizan).

Now Luscinia indica formosana (Hartert, 1910) .

See Dickinson, 2003: 676.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 579813 , adult male, collected on A­Li Shan (5 Mt. Arizan ), 238329N, 1208489E ( USBGN, 1955b), Taiwan, Republic of China, on 4 December 1906, by Japanese collectors for Alan Owston (no. F47). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert gave 4 December 1906 as the date of collection and F47 as the field number. All three specimens of this series in AMNH are numbered F47, but the date is unique. Paratypes are: AMNH 579814, male, collected 25 November 1906, and AMNH 579815, female, collected 28 November 1906, in the same locality.

Ripley (1964: 49) included indicus in Erithacus , and Cheng (1987: 589) and Sibley and Monroe (1990: 533) placed it in Tarsiger .

Publication date of this description was 1 January 1910, as printed on p. 31 of this bulletin.

Cossypha roberti rufescentior Hartert

Cossypha roberti rufescentior Hartert, 1908a: 9 (High forest 90 km. west of Lake Albert Edward, 1600 m. above sealevel).

Now Cossyphicula roberti rufescentior (Hartert, 1908) . See Keith et al., 1992: 415.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 580016 , adult male, collected in forest 90 km west of Lake Edward, 1600 m, Congo (Kinshasa), on 12 February 1908, by Rudolf Grauer (no. 2019). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert gave Grauer’s unique field number for the holotype. The female was also described and a single wing measurement given. AMNH 580018, female, collected west of Lake Edward on 10 February 1908 by Grauer (no. 1997) is a paratype. An immature female specimen, AMNH 580017, collected by Grauer on 15 February 1908 in the same locality, was identified on the Rothschild label as rufescentior and was so cataloged at AMNH. It is probably also a paratype, as Hartert routinely did not mention immature specimens when listing specimens comprising his type series. Chapin (1953: 518) pointed out that this specimen is immature and differs little from nominate Cossypha insulana . Comparison of material in AMNH supports this; it has the rusty orange cheek patches and brown tail (without black central tail feathers) of insulana . It became a paratype of Cossypha insulana schoutendeni when Prigogine (1952: 410) included it in his type series, the holotype and two paratypes of which are in the RMCA ( Louette et al., 2002: 37). The specimen is in immature plumage, not in juvenile plumage as indicat­ ed by Prigogine (1952: 410). The subspecies schoutendeni is currently Sheppardia bocagei schoutedeni .

Sibley and Monroe (1990: 534) included roberti in the genus Cossypha . Dickinson (2003: 677) treated the genus Cossyphicula in the subfamily Saxicolinae , family Muscicapidae .

Cossypha somereni Hartert

Cossypha somereni Hartert, 1912: 3 (Kyetume, near Kampala, Uganda).

Now Cossypha polioptera polioptera Reichenow, 1892 . See W.L. Sclater, 1930: 473 (footnote), and Keith et al., 1992: 427.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 580733 , unsexed adult, collected at Kyetume , 08219N, 328449E ( Chapin, 1954: 685), Uganda, on 14 Decem­

ber 1911, by Victor G.L. van Someren (no. 11). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: This specimen may very well be the holotype, as only one set of measurements was given in the original description. However, Hartert did not designate a type or say how many specimens he had, and he also listed the date of collection as 14 January 1911. Hartert (1920: 473) later listed the type (5 lectotype) of C. somereni as van Someren’s no. 11 with the correct date of 14 December 1911. It bears the Rothschild type label and is the only Rothschild specimen of this form in AMNH collected before the publication of the name.

Sibley and Monroe (1990: 534) treated the genus Cossypha in the tribe Saxicolini , subfamily Muscicapinae ; Dickinson (2003) placed it in the subfamily Saxicolinae , family Muscicapidae .