Pyrrhula erythaca taipaishanensis Rothschild

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 : 81-82

Pyrrhula erythaca taipaishanensis Rothschild

Pyrrhula erythaca taipaishanensis Rothschild, 1921: 63 (Tsin-ling Mts. (Mt. Tai-pai-shan)).

Now Pyrrhula erythaca erythaca Blyth, 1862 . See Hartert, 1921: 2057; Hartert, 1928: 197; Vaurie, 1959: 658–659; Howell et al., 1968: 295–296; LeCroy and Dickinson, 2001: 189; Dickinson, 2003: 756; and Clement, 2010: 608.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 714691 , adult male, collected on Taibai Mountain (5 Taipai Shan ), Qinling Range (5 Tsin-ling Mountains), Shaanxi, China (Chang, 1987: 997), on 17 June 1905, by collectors for Alan Owston. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild did not designate a type in the original description but said that he had 33 male, 8 female, and one juvenile male specimens. Hartert’s (1928: 197) listing of a male collected on 17 June 1905 as the type did not serve to unambiguously designate a lectotype, as there are three males collected on that date. The male bearing Rothschild’s type label, now AMNH 714691, was designated the lectotype of taipaishanensis by LeCroy and Dickinson (2001: 189). The 41 paralectotypes, all collected by Owston’s collectors on Taipai Shan, Tsinling Mountains, in 1905, are: AMNH 714692–714717, 714719–714723, 714732, males, 4 June–23 July; AMNH 714724– 714731, females, 7–23 July; AMNH 714718, juvenile male, 18 July. All of the specimens bear the number ‘‘79,’’ which probably indicates a species number.

There are two specimens in AMNH from this series that are not paralectotypes: AMNH 295266, male, 12 July 1905, and AMNH 295267, female, 18 July 1905. Both of these specimens had been purchased from the dealer W.F.H. Rosenberg and presented to the Ornithology Department by Leonard C. Sanford in 1931. They had undoubtedly been among specimens turned over to Rosenberg for sale, as one of them still bears a Rothschild Museum label. However, because Rothschild listed his type series, all of which came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, these two specimens must have been turned over to Rosenberg before the description was written.

Coordinates for Tai-pai-Shan are 33.57N, 107.40E (USBGN, 1974).