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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Microscelis viridescens myitkyinensis
Deignan
Microscelis viridescens myitkyinensis
Deignan, 1948: 3
(elev.
1000 ft.
along the ShingawTanga road, Myitkyina District,
Sagaing
Division,
Burma
).
Now
Iole virescens myitkyinensis
(
Deignan, 1948
)
. See
Dickinson and Gregory, 2002
, Dickinson and Dekker,
2002b: 103, and Dickinson et al., 2002b: 130.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 307094
, adult male, collected along the
ShingawTanga Road
at
1000 ft
,
Myitkyina District
,
Sagaing
Division
,
Myanmar
, on
20 November 1938
, by the
Vernay–Cutting Expedition
(no. 52).
COMMENTS
: The
AMNH
number of the type was given in the original description. In addition to the
holotype
, three of the
four paratypes
listed by Deignan are in
AMNH
:
AMNH 307095
, female, Tamu
;
AMNH 565607
, female, Kabaing
;
and
AMNH 565610
, female,
Gokteik Gorge. I
did not find the specimen from
Thailand
.
The type locality is shown on the map in
Stanford and Ticehurst (1938
: opp. p. 68) and in
Anthony (1941)
.