Carpodacus rubicilloides lapersonnei R. and A. Meinertzhagen

Carpodacus rubicilloides lapersonnei R. and A. Meinertzhagen, 1926: 83 (Shushal, Eastern Ladak (12,000’)).

Now Carpodacus rubicilloides lucifer R. and A. Meinertzhagen, 1926. See Hartert, 1928: 198; Vaurie, 1956b: 15–16; Vaurie, 1959: 641–642; Howell et al., 1968: 280; Dickinson, 2003: 755; and Clement, 2010: 594.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 712639, adult male, collected at Shushal, 12,000 ft (14,500 ft on label), eastern Ladak, Kashmir, on 11 June 1925, by the Meinertzhagens. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, the Meinertzhagens gave the above data for the holotype in the Rothschild Collection and noted that the new subspecies occurred in Ladak and Gyangtse. There is only one paratype in AMNH: Gyangtse, Tibet, AMNH 712638, male, 31 May 1905, by Capt. Stern.