Siphia hainana Ogilvie-Grant

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 95

Siphia hainana Ogilvie-Grant

Siphia hainana Ogilvie-Grant, 1900d: 36 (Five-finger Mountains, in the interior of Hainan).

Now Cyornis hainanus (Ogilvie-Grant, 1900) . See MacKinnon and Phillipps, 2000: 312, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 149.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 450764, adult male, 17 May 1899, and AMNH 450765, adult female, 14 May 1899, both collected in the Five Finger Mountains, 18.59N, 109.45E (Times Atlas), Hainan Island, China, by John Whitehead (nos. 222 and 210, respectively). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In his description of this species, Ogilvie-Grant did not designate a type, describing male and female but not giving the number of specimens examined. He apparently had the entire Whitehead Hainan collection before him, as the collection was sent to him at BMNH after Whitehead’s death in the field on this expedition ( Ogilvie-Grant, 1900c: 461). The above specimens bear labels printed ‘‘ Mus. Brit. ’’ and filled in with Whitehead’s data, presumably while the collection was in Ogilvie-Grant’s hands ; they also bear Rothschild Museum labels and are both marked ‘‘Co-type’’ by a hand unknown. They had not previously been recognized as syntypes, and AMNH type labels have been added. Two other syntypes were purchased by BMNH from the dealer E. Gerrard ( Warren and Harrison, 1971: 229) .