Parus spilonotus evanescens Rothschild

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 78

Parus spilonotus evanescens Rothschild

Parus spilonotus evanescens Rothschild, 1926: 313 (Shweli-Salwin Divide, 10,000 feet).

Now Parus spilonotus subviridis Blyth, 1855 . See Hartert, 1928a: 209–210, LeCroy and Dickinson, 2001: 195, Eck and Martens, 2006: 41, and Gosler and Clement, 2007: 743.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 680829 , adult male, collected on the Shweli-Salwin Divide , 10,000 ft, northwestern Yunnan, China, in August 1925, by George Forrest (no. 6137). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild, in his original description, listed the specimens that he included in evanescens, and designated as type the single male collected in August 1925. He had two additional male specimens collected by Forrest in the Shweli-Salwin Divide in August 1925, but at that time he considered them immature males of subviridis and, thus, not part of his type series of evanescens. In addition to the type, he included three adult males and two immature females from the Shweli Valley in evanescens: paratypes, AMNH 680819 (Forrest no. 5815), AMNH 680820 (5816), AMNH 680821 (5814), adult males ; and AMNH 680822 (5817), AMNH 680823 (5818), immature females, all collected in November 1924 .

Hartert (1928a: 209–210) confirmed as type the specimen with Forrest no. 6137 and noted that Rothschild had included specimens from the same locality in P. spilonotus subviridis and synonymized evanescens with subviridis.