TIMALIIDAE (Rand and Gilliard, 1967)

Mary, Croy, History, Bulletin Of The American Museum Of Natural, At, Central Park West, Street, Th, York, New & Ny, 2005, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 6. Passeriformes: Prunellidae, Turdidae, Orthonychidae, Timaliidae, Paradoxornithidae, Picathartidae, And Polioptilidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (292), pp. 1-132 : 65-66

TIMALIIDAE

Pellorneum ruficeps chamelum Deignan

Pellorneum ruficeps chamelum Deignan, 1947: 6 (Gunjong, Cachar District, Surma Valley and Hill Division, Assam Province, India).

Now Pellorneum ruficeps chamelum Deignan, 1947 . See Dickinson, 2003: 599.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 588344 , adult male, collected at Gunjong , 258199N, 938019E ( Collar et al., 2001: 2588), Cachar District , Surma Valley and Hill Division, Assam Province, India, on 2 November 1895, by E.C. Stuart Baker. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. The five paratypes listed by Deignan (1947: 7) are: AMNH 110640 , unsexed, from Rangsakona ; AMNH 110641 , male from Tura ; AMNH 588345 and 588346, females from Gunjong ; and AMNH 588342 , male from Mahu .

Ali and Ripley (1996a: 116) synonymized P. r. chamelum with P. ruficeps mandellii .

Pellorneum ruficeps ripleyi Deignan

Pellorneum ruficeps ripleyi Deignan, 1947: 7 (Margherita, Lakhimpur District, Assam Province, India).

Now Pellorneum ruficeps ripleyi Deignan, 1947 . See Dickinson, 2003: 599.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 588323 , adult male, collected at Margherita , 278179N, 958409E (Times Atlas), Lakhimpur District, Assam Province, India, on 31 (not 21) December 1901, by Henry Neville Coltart. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. Fourteen of the 17 paratypes listed by Deignan (1947: 8) are at AMNH: Margherita, males, AMNH 588319–588322 , 588324– 588327 ; females, AMNH 588328 , 588329 , 588332 , and 588334 ; Dibrugarh, male, AMNH 588338 , and female, AMNH 588340 . Deignan borrowed specimens from many museums for his study of Pellorneum ruficeps and labeled and initialed specimens he had in hand. Other specimens in AMNH from the same localities but not labeled and initialed by Deignan are not considered paratypes .

Ali and Ripley (1996a: 116) synonymized P. ruficeps ripleyi with P. r. mandellii .

Pellorneum ruficeps shanense Deignan

Pellorneum ruficeps shanense Deignan, 1947: 9 (Ma­li­pa (lat. 238419 N., long. 988469 E.), Kokang State, Burmese Wa States).

Now Pellorneum ruficeps shanense Deignan, 1947 . See Smythies, 1986: 276, and Mac­ Kinnon and Phillipps, 2000: 427–428.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 143416 , adult female, collected at Ma­li­pa, 3600 ft, 238429N, 988459E (Times Atlas), Kokang State , Wa States , Myanmar, on 15 March 1917, by Roy Chapman Andrews and Edmund Heller. Collected on the AMNH Asiatic Zoological Expedition (no. 567).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. Only one of the listed paratypes is in AMNH: AMNH 143417, male, from Changlung.

Ma­li­pa was listed on the field label as being in Yunnan, China, but today it lies just inside the Myanmar border.

Pellorneum ruficeps victoriae Deignan

Pellorneum ruficeps victoriae Deignan, 1947: 10 (Mount Victoria (lat. 218159 N., long. 938559 E.), Kanpetlet District, Magwe Division, Burma).

Now Pellorneum ruficeps victoriae Deignan, 1947 . See Smythies, 1986: 276, and Dickinson, 2003: 599.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 306137 (not 306134), adult male, collected on Mount Victoria , 218129N, 938559E (Times Atlas), Kanpetlet District , Magwe Division, Myanmar, on 12 March 1938, by Gerd Heinrich (no. 2010).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype is poorly written and was misread by Deignan and by me until a check in the AMNH catalog confirmed the correct number. The paratype listed by Deignan (1947: 11) is not in AMNH. The collection of some 4000 specimens made in 1937–1938 on Mount Victoria by Gerd Heinrich was reported on by Stresemann and Heinrich (1939). It was afterwards divided among several museums, with some 400 specimens being purchased by AMNH. Specimens of Pellorneum ruficeps collected by Heinrich were listed under the subspecies minus ( Stresemann and Heinrich, 1939: 203).

Turdinus canicapillus Sharpe

Turdinus canicapillus Sharpe, 1887: 450 (Kina Balu, northern Borneo).

Now Trichastoma pyrrogenys canicapillus ( Sharpe, 1887) . See Wells et al., 2001, and David and Gosselin, 2002a: 35.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 588610 , adult male, collected on Kinabalu , 3000 ft, 068039N, 1168329E (Times Atlas), Sabah, Malaysia, on 25 March 1887, by John Whitehead (no. 1354). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Sharpe did not designate a type in the original description but described male and female. Later, Sharpe (in Sharpe and Whitehead, 1889: 415) listed only one specimen collected in 1887, a male collected on the above date, again without designating a type, but in a paper that frequently does not list all of Whitehead’s specimens. White­ head often sent ahead to Sharpe ‘‘a pair of most birds I thought would be new’’ ( Whitehead, 1893: 185). This was apparently the case for this taxon, as both a male and a female collected in 1887 came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Hartert (1920: 484) designated the above male the lectotype, citing Whitehead’s number. The reverse of Whitehead’s label is marked ‘‘Type RBS[harpe]’’. The female is the paralectotype: AMNH 588612 (Whitehead no. 1356), collected on 4 April 1887. The small field tag still present on this specimen is marked ‘‘descr. Type’’.

See Wells et al. (2001) for a survey of the nomenclatural history of canicapillus and relatives and a comparison of vocalizations. David and Gosselin (2002a: 35) noted that canicapillus is a noun phrase, to be treated as a noun in apposition, with the gender ending unchanged.

Dickinson (2003: 600) included the species pyrrogenys in the genus Pellorneum .