Hirundo striolata mayri Hall

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 : 35-36

Hirundo striolata mayri Hall

Hirundo striolata mayri Hall, 1953: 547 (Singhaling Hkamti, Upper Chindwin, Burma).

Now Cecropis striolata mayri ( Hall, 1953) . See Dickinson and Dekker, 2001b: 136–137.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 409381 , adult male, collected at Singkaling Hkamti , 26°01′N, 95°39′E (Times Atlas), Upper Chindwin River, Myanmar, on 4 March 1935, on the Vernay–Hopwood Chindwin Expedition (no. 578).

COMMENTS: Hall (1953: 547) pointed out that Mayr (1941: 369–370) had considered the name substriolata to be available for the race of Hirundo striolata that he recognized from the Upper Chindwin, but that Lillia substriolata Hume, 1877 , actually is a synonym of H. d. daurica. Because substriolata was not available, the Upper Chindwin birds were left without a name, and Hall provided H. s. mayri as a name for these birds. The AMNH number of the holotype, a specimen selected by Mayr from his original series, was given in the original description. Of the specimens of ‘‘ substriolata ’’ examined by Mayr (1941: 369–370), I found only two in AMNH in addition to the holotype of mayri. These are paratypes of mayri: AMNH 560504, juv. female, and AMNH 560505, adult female. Both of these specimens are from the Khasia Hills, but only one was listed by Mayr, probably because the second specimen was immature and not measured.

Turner and Rose (1989: 205) and Robson (2000: 420) included this species in Hirundo .