Lanius schach hainanus Birckhead

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 : 102

Lanius schach hainanus Birckhead

Lanius schach hainanus Birckhead, 1937: 12 (Hainan Is.).

Now Lanius schach schach Linnaeus, 1758 . See Rand, 1960: 349, Harris and Franklin, 2000: 207, and Lefranc and Worfolk, 1997: 113.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 450989 , [adult male], collected on Hainan Island , China, on 14 February 1902, by Zensaku Katsumata (no. 2). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number was cited in the original description. The holotype was not sexed by the collector, but was published as a male by Birckhead, perhaps because its wing measures 103 mm, the largest in his series of measurements of eight males. The Rothschild Collection held 13 Katsumata specimens of Lanius schach in normal plumage from Hainan. The 12 paratypes are AMNH 661877–661888. At the time of this description, melanistic specimens were identified as Lanius fuscatus .

The holotype is the only specimen in the series without an exact locality; however, a female collected on the same day was taken at Kiung Chau (= Ch’iung Chou), 19°56′N, 110°30′E (Times Atlas). The number ‘‘2p’’ appears on the field label of each nonmelanistic specimen.