Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 6. Passeriformes: Prunellidae, Turdidae, Orthonychidae, Timaliidae, Paradoxornithidae, Picathartidae, And Polioptilidae
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Phoenicurus frontalis sinae
Hartert
Phoenicurus frontalis sinae
Hartert, 1918b: 78
(Kansu)
.
Now
Phoenicurus frontalis
Vigors, 1832
. See
Ripley, 1964: 78
, and
Cheng, 1987: 597
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 578483
, adult male, collected in
Gansu
(5
Kansu
) Prov., central
China
, in
March 1884
, by
Nikolai M. Przewalski. From
the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert designated as type an adult male collected by Przewalski in
Kansu
in
March 1884
. AMNH 578483 is the only such specimen that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection.
Hartert (1918b: 78)
noted that he compared
38 specimens
of the new form with 16 typical
P. f.
frontalis
. There are
38 specimens
collected at Taipaishan, Tsinling Mts., by collectors for Alan Owston (AMNH 578490–578527), four of which are immatures and juveniles (routinely omitted from Hartert’s totals). In addition, there are (besides the
holotype
)
two specimens
collected by Przewalski in
Kansu
, AMNH 578484 (in 1874) and 578485 (in July, no year), and AMNH 578487 collected by David on
2 November 1869
at Moupin (includ ed by Hartert in the range). All 41 of these specimens would have been available to Hartert and are considered
paratypes
.
Sibley and Monroe (1990: 537)
treated
Phoenicurus
in the tribe
Saxicolini
, subfamily
Muscicapinae
;
Dickinson (2003: 681)
placed it in the subfamily
Saxicolinae
, family
Muscicapidae
.