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[AMNH Birds SKIN-666272] Ampeliceps coronatus - Country Issue #89

Open paintedstork opened 6 years ago

paintedstork commented 6 years ago

Please check once - this and the next specimen in this series. All specimens by this collector are from Myanmar - and this location might also be in Myanmar - tag might have read 'India' when the countries were together. Thanks & best rgds Praveen

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You can view the original detail page on VertNet. Here are the original record contents:

Term Value
InstitutionCode AMNH
CollectionCode Birds
References http://portal.vertnet.org/o/amnh/birds?id=skin-666272
BibliographicCitation American Museum of Natural History. AMNH Bird Collection. Record ID: SKIN-666272. Source: http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource.do?r=amnh_birds (source published on 2013-10-30)
BasisOfRecord PreservedSpecimen
VNType specimen
DCType PhysicalObject
InstitutionID urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34925
CollectionID urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34926
Modified 2013-08-20
Language en
CatalogNumber SKIN-666272
RecordedBy T. A. Hauxwell
IndividualCount 1
Sex male
OccurrenceStatus present
Preparations skin
EventDate 1892-04
Year 1892
Month 4
VerbatimEventDate 1892-04
HigherGeography ;India;;;;;;
Continent Asia
Country India
CountryCode IN
Locality Thonnyim
VerbatimLocality ; India; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Thonnyim
ScientificName Ampeliceps coronatus
HigherClassification Animalia;Chordata;Aves;Passeriformes;Sturnidae;Ampeliceps
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Passeriformes
Family Sturnidae
Genus Ampeliceps
SpecificEpithet coronatus
TaxonRank species
NomenclaturalCode ICZN
UnderivedSex male
Samizdat2003 commented 6 years ago

I checked the original labels for these two skins (AMNH SKIN 666272 and 666273) and neither has a country name recorded on it. Attached are photos of these labels. Also attached is a list of all seven birds in our database collected by Hauxwell in April 1892. I suspect "Thonnyim" and the other variations herein are misspellings of "Thaungyin Valley" in Myanmar.

Hauxwell - April 1982.txt

666273 666272

paintedstork commented 6 years ago

Thank you very much for looking into this issue - I concur with your alternate suggestion - month of collection also matches.

But I do not have much visibility into alternate names for locations in Myanmar but I can tell you that I am unable to find a close-enough name from NE India. "Myanmar ?" could be used instead of India ?

thanks & best rgds Praveen

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 4:07 AM, Samizdat2003 notifications@github.com wrote:

I checked the original labels for these two skins (AMNH SKIN 666272 and 666273) and neither has a country name recorded on it. Attached are photos of these labels. Also attached is a list of all seven birds in our database collected by Hauxwell in April 1892. I suspect "Thonnyim" and the other variations herein are misspellings of "Thaungyin Valley" in Myanmar.

Hauxwell - April 19 https://github.com/amnh-vertnet/amnh-birds/files/1760492/Hauxwell.-.April.1982.txt

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Samizdat2003 commented 6 years ago

I have updated these localities in the AMNH database to reflect the fact that they are correctly located in Myanmar, and I've noted that the bird with locality "India: ?" was also likely collected in Myanmar.

Best regards, Tom