Calamoherpe subflavescens Elliot

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 24

Calamoherpe subflavescens Elliot

Calamoherpe subflavescens Elliot, 1870: 243 (Dahouria, in Central Asia).

Now Locustella fasciolata fasciolata (Gray, 1861) . See Hartert, 1909: 545, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 616.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 7300 , juvenile male, collected at Dauriya (5 Dahouria), 49.57N, 116.55E (Times Atlas), Russia, no date given. From the collection of Mme. Verday.

COMMENTS: In 1869, when Elliot began a lengthy residence abroad in order to study in European institutions, he was asked by the Administration of the newly formed AMNH to purchase specimens for the museum. This specimen was selected from the collection of Mme. Verday by Elliot as part of his purchases ( Anonymous, 1915: 137–138) and was the only example he had ( Elliot, 1870: 244). Madame Verday’s name has been variously spelled; I have used the spelling given by Elliot in the original description of this taxon.

For 1861, not 1860, as the publication date of Gray’s description of fasciolata , see Duncan (1937: 72).

For recent studies of relationships among warblers of the genus Acrocephalus and related genera, based on mtDNA sequences and morphology, see Leisler et al. (1997) and Helbig and Seibold (1999).