Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:
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Lecroy, Mary
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
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2010
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Arachnechthra rhizophorae
Swinhoe
Arachnechthra rhizophorae
Swinhoe, 1869: 436
(
Hainan
)
.
Now
Cinnyris jugularis rhizophorae
(
Swinhoe, 1869
)
.
See
Cheke and Mann, 2008a: 296–297
.
SYNTYPES
:
AMNH 687499
and
AMNH 687500
, adult males, collected on
Hainan
Island,
19.00N
,
109.30E
(USBGN, 1956d),
China
, in
March 1868
, by Robert Swinhoe. From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Swinhoe, in his original description, did not designate a type or say how many specimens he collected, only noting that his new form,
rizophorae
, was ‘‘a very common species throughout
Hainan
, among the mountains as well as among the marshes of the coast.’’ In his later paper on the birds of
Hainan
,
Swinhoe (1870: 238)
spoke of collecting
rhizophorae
in many different localities during March of 1868. These specimens had not previously been recognized as types. There are also several
syntypes
in BMNH (
Warren and Harrison, 1971: 461
) and one in RMNH (
Dekker and Quaisser, 2006: 20
).