Cryptolopha burkii valentini Hartert

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 : 67-68

Cryptolopha burkii valentini Hartert

Cryptolopha burkii valentini Hartert, 1907e: 497 (Taipaischen) .

Now Seicercus valentini valentini (Hartert, 1907) . See Alström and Olsson, 1999, Martens et al., 2003: 113, and Olsson et al., 2004.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 450459 , adult male, collected on Taibai Shan (5 Taipaischen ), 33.57N, 107.45E ( BirdLife International, 2001: 2575), Qin Ling Shan (5 Tsin-ling Mountains ), Shaanxi, China, on 2 June 1905, by collectors for Alan Owston (O.C. no. 132). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1907e: 497) noted that Berezowski and Bianchi incorrectly identified their Gansu birds with Cryptolopha tephrocephala ( Anderson, 1871) , thereby leaving them without a name. Hartert supplied Cryptolopha burkii valentini and designated the holotype by citing the specimen number 13205. This number has been written on the reverse of the Owston label and also on the Rothschild type label; it seems to be a combination of the Owston number and the year. All of the specimens of this form bear the Owston number 132, which may indicate the species.

The range of the form was given as southern Gansu and Shaanxi (5 Süd-Kansu und Schensi) in the Qin Ling Shan (5 Tsinling-Gebirge). Paratypes in AMNH are AMNH 450456–450458 and 450460–450481, all collected by Owston’s collectors on Taibai Shan in the Qin Ling Shan. I did not find AMNH 450465 in the collection.