Urocissa flavirostris victoriae Sick, 1939 : 78

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 : 14-15

Urocissa flavirostris victoriae Sick, 1939: 78

TL: Mt. Victoria , südliche Chin-Hills, Burma [Natmataung, southern Chin Hills, Myanmar; c. 21°11’N, 93°56’E].

Now Urocissa flavirostris schaeferi Sick, 1939 . See Blake & Vaurie 1962: 241 [original spelling schäferi], Madge & Burn 1999: 105 [misspelled schaferi], Dickinson 2003: 509 [correctly as schaeferi], Dickinson et al. 2004b: 115.

HOLOTYPE: ZMB 39.2. Adult male. Loc.: Mt. Victoria , 2600m, Pakokku , Chin-hills [ Myanmar]. Date: 4 June 1938. Coll.: Gerd Heinrich, Burma Expedition No. 3626. Iris: yellowish brown. Feet: orange-red. Bill: lemon. Testes: 5 x 2.5 mm. [S, Heinrich label, Meise MS].

PARATYPES: ZMB 39.283. Adult male. Loc.: Mt. Victoria , 2800m, Pakokku , Chin-hills [ Myanmar]. Date : 2 May 1938. Coll.: Gerd Heinrich, Burma Expedition No. 3057. Iris: yellow. Feet: orange. Bill: lemon. Testes: 5 x 3 mm. [S, Heinrich label]. ZMB 39.284. Adult female. Loc.: Mt. Victoria, 2600m, Pakokku, Chin-hills [ Myanmar]. Date: 5 May 1938. Coll.: Gerd Heinrich, Burma Expedition No. 3115. [No further data]. [S, Heinrich label]. ZMB 39.285. Adult female. Loc.: Mt. Victoria, 2600m, Pakokku, Chin-hills [ Myanmar]. Date: 15 April 1938. Coll.: Gerd Heinrich, Burma Expedition No. 2739. Iris: brown. Feet: orange. Bill: lemon. [S, Heinrich label].

COMMENTS: Of the original four male and nine female paratypes, the ZMB bought one male and two females for its collection in 1939. Additional paratypes are found at the AMNH (306211-306213; M. LeCroy in litt. February 2009) and the MCZ (265722-265725, J. Trimble in litt. February 2009), all originating from the same collecting trip and site as the ZMB specimens. The ICZN (1999, article 32.5.2.1) demands the alteration of German Umlauts as corrected by Dickinson (2003) and Dickinson et al. (2004b). See Dickinson et al. (2004a: 90) for the discussion of subspecies. In the original description ( Sick 1939) the name Urocissa flavirostris victoriae was used accidentally and is here treated as a lapsus for Urocissa flavirostris schaeferi Sick, 1939 . The name U. f. victoriae is an objective synonym in any case, as the name is based on the same name-bearing types as schaeferi (cf. Steinheimer cit. in Dickinson et al. 2004b: 129).