Eremomela badiceps turneri van Someren

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 : 56

Eremomela badiceps turneri van Someren

Eremomela badiceps turneri van Someren, 1920: 92 (Yala River).

Now Eremomela turneri turneri van Someren, 1920 . See Urban et al., 1997: 333.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 599496 , adult male, collected on the Yala River , south Elgon, Kenya, on 7 December 1915, by H.J. Allen Turner (no. 389). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren said that the male type, in the Rothschild Collection, was collected on the Yala River on 7 December 1915 by Turner, but he gave Turner’s field number as ‘‘289’’. Only this single specimen of turneri came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, and the cited field number was probably a typographical error. Hartert (1928: 213) listed this type but without a collector’s number.

Polhill (1988) gave the coordinates of the Yala River as 00.035N, 34.10E – 00.085N, 35.00E.