Anthreptes yokanae 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 : 130

Anthreptes yokanae van Someren

Anthreptes yokanae van Someren , (in Hartert) 1921b: 63 (Rabai).

Now Anthreptes reichenowi yokanae van Someren, 1921 . See Cheke and Mann, 2008a: 246.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 686176 , adult male, collected in the Rabai Hills , ca. 03.56S, 39.35E ( Polhill, 1988), Kenya, on 10 November 1920, V.G. L. van Someren Collection. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1921b: 63) exhibited this new sunbird on behalf of van Someren at a meeting of the British Ornithologists’ Club. This has led a number of authors to credit the description to Hartert (e.g., Rand, 1967: 210; Cheke et al., 2001: 182, later corrected in Cheke and Mann, 2008a: 246; and Dickinson, 2003: 704, later corrected in Corrigenda 1). Hartert (1928a: 206) himself credited the description to van Someren. In the original description, the type was said to be a male in the Rothschild Collection collected on 10 November 1920. The above specimen is the only one of yokanae bearing those data; in addition to the original label, it bears a Rothschild type label, where the name is also credited to van Someren. Only the Rabai Hills were included in the range of yokanae , and five specimens were said to have been collected there. Paratypes in AMNH are: Rabai, AMNH 686175, male, 9 November 1920; AMNH 686177, female, 9 October 1920. I have no information on the whereabouts of the other two paratypes. This name was published on 27 January 1921, and specimens from Sokoke collected in December 1920 – May 1921 are not paratypes.