Pycnonotus cafer vicinus Ripley

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 : 79

Pycnonotus cafer vicinus Ripley

Pycnonotus cafer vicinus Ripley, 1946: 228 (Mysore,

South India).

Now Pycnonotus cafer cafer (Linnaeus, 1766) . See

Dickinson and Dekker, 2002b: 98–99, and Dickinson et al., 2002b: 122.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 568706 , unsexed, collected in Mysore , India. From the Marshall Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the type was cited in the original description. Ripley (1946: 228) thought that this specimen was probably a male, based on size (wing 98, tail 85, culmen 17). He noted that the holotype was the most presentable specimen ‘‘of a poor series’’. There are seven specimens from southern India, all in poor condition, that are probably paratypes: AMNH 568705, 568707, and 568708, from the Rothschild Collection, and AMNH 63589–63592, from the Murray Collection. Two specimens collected by Salim Ali in Mysore in 1939 were not received at AMNH until after World War II and were not cataloged until 1947. They would not have been available to Ripley.