Leptopoecile elegans Przevalski

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 : 77

Leptopoecile elegans Przevalski

Leptopoecile elegans Przevalski, 1887: 77 (Upper Huang He).

Now Leptopoecile elegans elegans Przevalski, 1887 . See Dickinson, 2003: 539.

Syntype: AMNH 597484, adult male, collected on the Baga-gorgi River, northeast of Sinin City, upper Huang (5 Chuan, as on label) He, south of Koko Nor Lake (5 Lake Kukunor, as on label), in April 1880 (Julian calendar), by N.M. Przevalski. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: This specimen had not been housed in the type collection at AMNH but had been marked ‘‘Cotype’’ on the label. Correspondence with Vladimir Loskot, ZISP, confirmed that this specimen was part of Przevalski’s type series. Most of Przevalski’s syntypes of L. elegans are in ZISP, and Dr. Loskot, who is preparing a list of types in that institution, plans to designate one of their specimens as the lectotype. When this list is published, the AMNH syntype will become a paralectotype. There are also three syntypes in ZMMU ( Borissenko et al., 2001: 142–143).

MUSCICAPIDAE

See Lei et al. (2007) for a phylogenetic study of relationships within the Muscicapidae based on analysis of cytochrome b mitochondrial gene sequences.