Chloris chloris smithae Koelz

Chloris chloris smithae Koelz, 1939: 74 (Balkh, Afghanistan).

Now Carduelis chloris turkestanica (Zarudny, 1907) . See Vaurie, 1956a: 8–10; Vaurie, 1959: 601–602; Howell et al., 1968: 236; Dickinson, 2003: 749; and Clement, 2010: 542–543.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 466940, adult male, collected at Wazirabad (5 Balkh), 36.46N, 66.50E (Times atlas), Afghanistan, on 1 December 1937, by Walter Koelz.

COMMENTS: Koelz, in the original description, said that the type was an adult male (wing 91 mm), collected at Balkh, Afghanistan, 1 December 1937, and that he had an additional male and two females with the same data. AMNH 466940 bears the AMNH type label and Koelz’s original label is marked ‘‘type’’ by him ; I measure its wing at 91. Paratypes are: AMNH 466939, male, AMNH 466941, 466942, females, collected at Balkh on 1 December 1937, by Koelz .