Acanthis flavirostris stoliczkae Hartert

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 70

Acanthis flavirostris stoliczkae Hartert

Acanthis flavirostris stoliczkae Hartert, 1903: 77 (Gilgit) .

Now Carduelis flavirostris montanella (Hume, 1873) . See Hartert, 1919a: 157; Vaurie, 1956a: 17–18; Vaurie, 1959: 613–614; Dickinson, 2003: 751; and Clement, 2010: 566–567.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 710954 , adult male, collected at Gilgit, 35.54N, 74.20E (Times atlas), Kashmir, on 7 March 1880, by J. Scully (no. 738). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert gave Scully’s number 738 for the holotype but did not mention additional specimens. Later, Hartert (1919: 157) called attention to the earlier introduction of the name montanella Hume, 1873, which applied to his form.

J. Scully and J. Biddulph collected together and separately in Gilgit and in their reports on their collections, they referred to this form as Linaria brevirostris ( Biddulph, 1881: 86; Scully, 1881: 578–579). Biddulph did not obtain this species, but Scully, at a slightly later date, obtained 66 males and 32 females, for which he gave measurements. The number W 3.03 (wing measurement in inches) appears on Scully’s label of the holotype. Three specimens additional to the holotype came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, but because Hartert did not mention other specimens, I have not considered them paratypes.