Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae
Author
LeCroy, Mary
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Chloris sinica tschiliensis
Jacobi
Chloris sinica tschiliensis
Jacobi, 1923: 25
(
Peking
, Jingschujingtsze, Balihandiën).
Now
Carduelis sinica sinica
(Linnaeus, 1766)
. See
Vaurie, 1959: 602
;
Howell et al., 1968: 236
;
Dickinson, 2003: 749
; and Clement, 2010: 543– 544.
SYNTYPES
:
AMNH 709209
, adult male,
AMNH 709210
, female, collected at Westgräben bei
Beijing
(5
Peking
)
39.55N
,
116.25E
(Times atlas), on
11 March 1916
, by H. Weigold on the Stoetzner’sche Szetschwan-Expedition. From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS:
In
the original description,
Jacobi
said that he had six males and five females collected at
Peking
,
Jingschujingtsze
, and
Balihandiën
, on 11
March
, 2
May
, and 26
June
, and a juvenile female collected at
Peking
on 26 June. The above specimens were both collected near
Beijing
on
11 March 1916
and are both marked ‘‘Cotypus.’’
Wing
measurements in pencil on the reverse of the original labels are: male 82, female 77.5, both measurements being given in the original description.
These
syntypes
were not listed by Hartert in his lists of types in the Rothschild Collection and had not previously been included with
AMNH
types.
Töpfer (2013)
has recently discovered the whereabouts of the remaining
10 syntypes
: six, with an additional one lost in
World War II
, SNSK
; one, ZFMK; two, MCZ.