Culicipeta tephrocephalus Anderson

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

Culicipeta tephrocephalus Anderson

Culicipeta tephrocephalus Anderson, 1871: 213 (Bhamo, Burmah)

Now Seicercus tephrocephalus ( Anderson, 1871) . See Alström and Olsson, 1999, Martens et al., 2003: 111, and Rasmussen and Anderton, 2005: 511.

Neotype: AMNH 450451 , adult female, collected at Sinlum , Bhamo, 24.15N, 97.15E (Times Atlas), Myanmar, on 12 May 1908, by H.H. Harington. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Anderson (1871: 213) gave his type locality as Bhamo, in northeastern Myanmar, but he did not say how many specimens he had. He was the Director of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, and would have deposited his type material therein. According to information supplied to Alström and Olsson (1999: 555), this material is presumed to have been destroyed during floods that occurred during World War II. In the course of their detailed study of the populations formerly considered to belong to a single species Seicercus burkii , they designated the above specimen by AMNH number as the neotype of Anderson’s Culicipeta tephrocephalus . See also Olsson et al (2004).