Cinnyris bifasciatus tsavoensis van Someren

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 146

Cinnyris bifasciatus tsavoensis van Someren

Cinnyris bifaciatus tsavoensis van Someren, 1922: 196 (Tsavo) .

Now Cinnyris tsavoensis van Someren, 1922 . See Fry et al., 2000: 273–274, and Cheke and Mann, 2008a: 285.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 688573 , adult male, collected at Tsavo , 02.59S, 38.28E (Times Atlas), Kenya, on 3 April 1918. From the V.G. L. van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren said that his type was collected at Tsavo on 3 April 1918 and housed in the Rothschild Collection and that he had specimens from Teita, Sagala, Maungu, Tsavo, Upper Tana, and Simba. AMNH 688573 is

the only specimen of this form that was collected on 3 April 1918. The van Someren label is marked ‘‘Type’’ by him, and the specimen bears a Rothschild type label. The following AMNH specimens are paratypes: Maungu, males, AMNH 688566–688569 ; Tsavo, males, AMNH 688571 , 688572 , 688574 , 688576–688578 , 688586 , females, AMNH 688587 , 688593–688597 . There are no specimens at AMNH from the other localities mentioned in the description. Louette et al. (2002: 62) listed six paratypes in MRAC .