Lonchura punctulata yunnanensis Parkes, 1958

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 : 115

Lonchura punctulata yunnanensis Parkes

Lonchura punctulata yunnanensis Parkes, 1958: 285 (‘‘hills around Tengyueh’’ [5 Tengchung], western Yunnan, alt. 6,000 feet).

Now Lonchura punctulata yunnanensis Parkes, 1958 . See Mayr et al., 1968: 375–376; Dickinson, 2003: 735; and Payne, 2010: 366.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 720698 , adult female, collected in the hills around T’eng-ch’ung (5 Tengyueh, as on label), 6000 ft, 25.02N, 98.28E (Times atlas), western Yunnan, China, in June 1924, by George Forrest (no. 5027). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Parkes cited the AMNH number of the holotype and on page 287 listed the 35 specimens in his type series. One of the 34 paratypes, from 6 mi north of Myitkina, is in USNM, the remaining 33 are in AMNH: China, vicinity of T’eng-ch’ung, AMNH 720685–720697 , 720699–720708 , seven males, 11 females, one female?, four sex ?; Nantien , AMNH 720677 , male ; Shweli-Salaween Divide , AMNH 720678–720683 , four males, two females. Myanmar (5 Burmah), Myitkina, AMNH 347218 , male ; Singhaling Hkamti , AMNH 409827 , male ; Washaung , AMNH 307466 , female ; Sinlumkaba , east of Bhamo, AMNH 720672 , male .