Garrulus bispecularis pekingensis Reichenow, 1905 : 425

Steinheimer, Frank D., 2009, The type specimens of Corvidae (Aves) in the Museum für Naturkunde at the Humboldt-University of Berlin, with the description of a new subspecies of Dendrocitta vagabunda, Zootaxa 2149 (1), pp. 1-49 : 11

Garrulus bispecularis pekingensis Reichenow, 1905: 425

TL: Peking [Beijing, China; 39°52’N, 116°27’E].

Now Garrulus glandarius pekingensis Reichenow, 1905 . See Vaurie 1959: 142, Blake & Vaurie 1962: 233, Madge & Burn 1999: 96, Dickinson 2003: 509, Dickinson et al. 2004b: 113.

SYNTYPES: ZMB 2002.599 [new registration, batch acquisition on arrival B.12614]. [No sex or age given]. Loc. Peking [Beijing, China]. Date : March 1874. Coll.: E. I. von Möllendorff. [S, Mus, Meise MS]. ZMB 2002.600 [new registration, batch acquisition on arrival B.12614]. [No sex or age given]. Loc. Peking [Beijing, China]. Date: March 1874. Coll.: E. I. von Möllendorff. [S, Mus, Meise MS].

COMMENTS: No records for E. I. von Möllendorff have been traced. “E. I.” may have been either a relative or the wife of Paul Georg von Möllendorff (1847–1901, cf. Möllendorff 1930), who worked from 1869 and 1874 for the Imperial Maritime Customs Service in Shanghai and Hankou, China, and subsequently joined the German consular service based in Tianjin, from 1874–1882, or Otto Franz von Möllendorff (1848–1903, cf. Martens 1875, Horn et al. 1990), a natural history collector in East Asia and a mollusc specialist. Both Möllendorffs also published together a treatise on Chinese literature and had an interest in the Chinese language ( Möllendorff & Möllendorff 1876). Blake & Vaurie (1962: 233) erroneously cited the original name as Garrulus glandarius pekingensis Reichenow, 1905 , whereas Reichenow used the name in combination with Garrulus bispecularis . Vaurie (1959: 142) considered the race as being an intergrade between G. g. brandtii and G. g. sinensis.