Alauda arvensis vernayi Mayr

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 28

Alauda arvensis vernayi Mayr

Alauda arvensis vernayi Mayr (in Stanford and Mayr), 1941: 375 (Changyinhku, Burma –Yunnan border district).

Now Alauda gulgula vernayi Mayr, 1941 . See Cheng, 1987: 427, Robson, 2000: 476, and Dickinson et al., 2001a: 93.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 305901 , adult male, collected at Changyinhku , 7000 ft, Myanmar – Yunnan border, on 9 March 1939, by the Vernay–Cutting Burma Expedition (no. 1106).

COMMENTS: Mayr (in Stanford and Mayr, 1941: 375) gave the AMNH number of the holotype and stated that he had nine additional adult birds collected in March by the Vernay–Cutting Expedition and a March and a December specimen collected at Tengyueh (by George Forrest). The 11 paratypes are AMNH 307626–307634, 555570, and 555571.

Stanford (in Stanford and Mayr, 1940: 683) noted that Changyinhku was at the headwaters of the Chipwi stream, the mouth of which is at 25°54′N, 98°08′E (USBGN). It is shown on the map and described by Anthony (1941: 41, 44).