Microscelis leucocephalus ambiens Mayr

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 : 91

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Microscelis leucocephalus ambiens Mayr, 1942: 385

(LaukkaungChipwiStrasse, 1000 m, and Laukkaung,

1200 m).

Now Hypsipetes leucocephalus ambiens (Mayr, 1942) .

See Dickinson and Gregory, 2002, Dickinson and

Dekker, 2002b: 107, and Dickinson et al., 2002b: 135.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 307061 About AMNH , adult male, collect ed on the LauhkaungChipwi Road , 3000 ft, Myanmar, on 6 April 1939, by the Vernay–Cutting Burma Expedition (no. 1454) ; and AMNH 307060 About AMNH , adult female, collected at Lauhkaung, 4000 ft, 25°54′N, 98°06′E (Times Atlas), on 4 April 1939, by the Vernay–Cutting Burma Expedition (no. 1449) GoogleMaps .

COMMENTS: The AMNH numbers of the syntypes were given in the original description. Their localities are shown on the map in Stanford and Ticehurst (1938: opp. p. 68) and described in Anthony (1941). Although dated 1941, the issue of Journal für Ornithologie in which this description appeared was not published until 1942.

See Pasquet et al. (2001) for the results of recent DNA studies.

References

Anthony, H. E. 1941. Mammals collected by the Vernay-Cutting Burma Expedition. In Papers on Mammalogy, Field Museum of Natural History, Zoology Series 27: 37 - 123.

Dickinson, E. C. and S. M. S. Gregory. 2002. Systematic notes on Asian birds. 24. On the priority of the name Hypsipetes Vigors, 1831, and the division of the broad genus of that name. Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden 340: 75 - 91.

Pasquet, E., L. - X. Han, O. Khobkhet, and A. Cibois. 2001. Towards a molecular systematics of the genus Criniger, and a preliminary phylogeny of the bulbuls (Aves, Passeriformes, Pycnonotidae). Zoosystema 23: 857 - 863.

Stanford, J. K., and C. B. Ticehurst. 1938. On the birds of northern Burma. - Part I. Ibis (series 14) 2: 65 - 102.