Aethopyga latouchii Slater, 1891

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 149-150

Aethopyga latouchii Slater

Aethopyga latouchii Slater, 1891: 43 (Swatow) .

Now Aethopyga christinae latouchii Slater, 1891 . See Dickinson, 2003: 713, and Cheke and Mann, 2008a: 310.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 686775, adult male (bill broken), AMNH 686776, adult female, collected at ‘‘Chiong Pô,’’ Shan-t’ou (5 Swatow), 23.23N, 116.39E (Times Atlas),

Guangdong Province, China, in January 1888, by J.D. de La Touche. From the Henry H. Slater Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Slater noted that he had two male and three female specimens from La Touche, but did not designate a type; therefore all of the specimens that Slater examined are syntypes. Two of these came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection and bear Slater and Rothschild type labels as well as La Touche’s original labels. Their type status is confirmed by Hartert (1920a: 425). I have been unable to find the whereabouts of the other three syntypes. Both sexes of this form are illustrated in Slater (1891: pl. I, opp. p. 43).

In the original description, Slater gave the collecting locality as ‘‘ Chiong Pô in the hills west of Swatow ,’’ and he has written this on his label. Cheng (1987: 929) gave the current name of Chiong Pô as Zhangpu (5 Changp’u, 24.08N, 117.36E, Times Atlas) ; this locality is northeast some distance from Shan-t’ou and in Fujian Province and seems unlikely as the place these specimens were collected.