Microscelis leucocephalus stresemanni 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 : 91-92

Microscelis leucocephalus stresemanni Mayr

Microscelis leucocephalus stresemanni Mayr, 1942: 383

(Westhang des Lichiang­Gebirges (10,000′), Jünnan). Now Hypsipetes leucocephalus stresemanni (Mayr,

1942). See Dickinson and Gregory, 2002, Dickinson and Dekker, 2002b: 107, and Dickinson et al., 2002b:

135.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 565332 , adult male, collected on the western flank of the Lichiang Range , 9000– 10,000 ft, Yunnan, China, in June 1922, by George Forrest (no 1531). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the type was cited in the original description. I found 15 paratypes in the AMNH collection: AMNH 143376, 307058, 307059, 565255, 565263, 565324–565331, 565333, and 565334.

The Lichiang Range is north of the town of Lichiang (26°51′N, 100°16′E, Times Atlas); see maps in Cowan (1952) and LeCroy and Dickinson (2001: 196–197). Although dated 1941, the issue of the Journal für Ornithologie in which this description appeared was not published until 1942.

See Pasquet et al. (2001) for the results of recent DNA studies.