TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE
Author
LeCROY, M. A. R. Y.
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Lanius schach hainanus
Birckhead
Lanius schach hainanus
Birckhead, 1937: 12
(
Hainan
Is.).
Now
Lanius schach schach
Linnaeus, 1758
. See
Rand
, 1960: 349,
Harris and Franklin, 2000: 207
, and
Lefranc and Worfolk, 1997: 113
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 450989
, [adult male], collected on
Hainan
Island
,
China
, on
14 February 1902
, by
Zensaku Katsumata
(no. 2).
From
the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: The AMNH number was cited in the original description. The
holotype
was not sexed by the collector, but was published as a male by Birckhead, perhaps because its wing measures
103 mm
, the largest in his series of measurements of
eight males
. The Rothschild Collection held 13 Katsumata specimens of
Lanius schach
in normal plumage from
Hainan
. The
12 paratypes
are AMNH 661877–661888. At the time of this description, melanistic specimens were identified as
Lanius fuscatus
.
The
holotype
is the only specimen in the series without an exact locality; however, a female collected on the same day was taken at Kiung Chau (= Ch’iung Chou),
19°56′N
,
110°30′E
(Times Atlas). The number ‘‘2p’’ appears on the field label of each nonmelanistic specimen.