Dendrocitta formosae schistacea Stresemann, 1929 : 139

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 : 23

Dendrocitta formosae schistacea Stresemann, 1929: 139

TL: Yao-schan [Dayao Shan, Guangxi, China; c. 24°02’N, 110°18’E].

Now Dendrocitta formosae sinica Stresemann, 1913 . See Blake & Vaurie 1962: 248, Dickinson et al. 2004b: 118.

HOLOTYPE: ZMB 29.349. Female [on label, Stresemann 1929:? male]. Loc.: Yao-schan , Kwang-si Provinz [Dayao Shan, Guangxi, China]. Date: 3 December 1928. Coll.: Prof. S. S. Sin, No. 885 [and] No. 2 [? number for the taxon]. [S, Mus, Meise MS].

PARATYPE: ZMB 29.350. Male. Loc.: Yao-schan, Kwang-si Provinz. Date: 1928. Coll.: Prof. S. S. Sin, No. 1683 [and] No. 2 [? number for the taxon]. [S, Mus].

COMMENTS: The ZMB received these two specimens only. They had been donated to the ZMB by Prof. S. S. Sin from Guangxi in June 1929 (ZMB archives, Sign. SIII, Akte S; no further information on collector traced). Stresemann (1929) published his paper in September 1929. The holotype of Dendrocitta formosae sinica Stresemann, 1913 , was never in the ZMB collection, but was part of F. W. Styan’s collection, which went via the Rothschild collection to the AMNH (677042, female, loc. Ching-Feng , Fokien , China, 21 December 1897).