Dicrurus leucophaeus minimus Stuart Baker

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 52-53

Dicrurus leucophaeus minimus Stuart Baker

Dicrurus leucophaeus minimus Stuart Baker, 1918: 296 ( Ceylon) .

Now Dicrurus leucophaeus longicaudatus Jerdon, 1862 . See Hartert, 1928: 191; Vaurie, 1949b: 247; 1962: 142–143; Dickinson, 2003: 691–692; and Rocamora and Yeatman-Berthelot, 2009: 220–221.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 672036 , immature male, collected at Trincomalee (= Trincomali) 08.34N, 81.13E ( Lozupone et al., 2004), Sri Lanka (= Ceylon), on 22 December 1874 (not 23 December, as in description), by W.V. Legge. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The holotype is the only Legge specimen of this form that came to AMNH with the Rothschild collection. As noted by Vaurie (1949b: 247), it is immature and was marked ‘‘juv s’’ by Legge. Two other AMNH specimens that are undated are not considered paratypes. However, inclusive measurements were given by Stuart Baker for minimus, and such specimens in other institutions measured by him would be paratypes.