Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae
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LeCroy, Mary
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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).