Parus major hainanus Hartert, 1905c: 499 (Hainan).
Now Parus major hainanus Hartert, 1905. See Eck and Martens, 2006: 38–40, and Gosler and Clement, 2007: 739–741.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 680678, adult male, collected at Lei Mui Mon, Hainan Island, 19.00N, 109.30E (USBGN, 1968), China, on 18 December 1902, by Zensaku Katsumata (no. 58). From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Hartert cited the unique date on the above specimen when designating the type of hainanus and noted that Katsumata sent 15 adult specimens from various parts of Hainan. AMNH received 14 Katsumata specimens from Hainan; the 13 paratypes are all numbered ‘‘58,’’ evidently a species number, and all are sexed as male: Lei Mui Mon, AMNH 680677, AMNH 680679, AMNH 680680, 10–15 January 1903; Liudon, AMNH 680681, AMNH 680682, AMNH 680683, AMNH 680684, 5–9 March 1903; No-Tai, AMNH 680685, 29 September 1902; Secha, AMNH 680686, AMNH 680687, AMNH 680688, AMNH 680689, AMNH 680690, 8–12 April 1902. I have not considered a specimen collected by J. Whitehead on Hainan in 1900 a paratype, as no mention was made of it in the description and I am not sure when it came to Rothschild.