Troglodytes troglodytes muiri Rea, 1986

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 : 117

Troglodytes troglodytes muiri Rea

Troglodytes troglodytes muiri Rea, 1986: 140 (Navarro

River, 7 km inland, Mendocino Co., California).

Now Troglodytes troglodytes pacificus Rea, 1986 . See

Hejl et al., 2002: 4.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 831704, immature female (Rea no. 3052), AMNH 831705, immature female (Rea no. 3053), AMNH 831706, immature female (Rea no. 3054), AMNH 831707, immature male (Rea no. 3055), AMNH 831708, immature female (Rea no. 3056), AMNH 831709, immature female (Rea no. 3057), all collected 4.3 mi inland on the Navarro River, Mendocino Co., California, on 1 September 1970, by Amadeo M. Rea and Aldena Stevens. Received on exchange from the Amadeo M. Rea Collection.

COMMENTS: Browning (1990: 440) provisionally accepts this subspecies as valid; it is not mentioned by Brewer and MacKay (2001: 166) and is not accepted by Hejl et al. (2002: 4). Based on mitochondrial DNA studies, Rice et al. (1999) suggested placing T. troglodytes in the genus Nannus Billberg, 1828 . This is not incorrect, as it first appears. The type species of Troglodytes is not T. troglodytes as one might assume; rather it is T. aedon . The type species of Nannus is Motacilla troglodytes .