Microscelis charlottae aquilonis Deignan

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 : 88

Microscelis charlottae aquilonis Deignan

Microscelis charlottae aquilonis Deignan, 1948: 4

(Backan (lat. 22°08′N., long. 105°50′E.), Backan

Province, northeastern Tongking).

Now Iole propinqua aquilonis ( Deignan, 1948) . See

Dickinson and Gregory, 2002, Dickinson and Dekker,

2002b: 103, and Dickinson et al., 2002b: 130.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 565615 , unsexed adult, collected at Bac Kan, 22°08′N, 105°50′E ( Deignan, 1948: 4), Bac Kan Prov., North Vietnam, on 8 December 1926, by Jean Delacour and Pierre Jabouille (no. 1652). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the type was given in the original description. Deignan listed five males, one female, and two unsexed specimens, all from Hoixuan Prov., as paratypes. There are in AMNH six males and two unsexed specimens from Hoixuan collected by Delacour and Jabouille, AMNH 290847–290854. Because Deignan (1948: 1) borrowed specimens from many museums, there remains the possibility that a female specimen, collected by Delacour and Jabouille at Xoixuan, will be found in another collection.