Eremomela elegans elgonensis 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 elegans elgonensis van Someren

Eremomela elegans elgonensis van Someren, 1920: 92 (Kibingei River, S. Elgon).

Now Eremomela canescens canescens Antinori, 1864 . See Dickinson, 2003: 594, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 684.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 599395 , adult male, collected on the Kibingei River , 00.43N, 34.40E ( USBGN, 1978), southern Elgon, Kenya, on 21 April 1917, by V.G.L. van Someren. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren noted that the type bearing the above data was in the Rothschild Collection. AMNH 599395 is the only specimen collected on 21 April 1917 on the Kibingei River that came to AMNH. The range of the subspecies was given as ‘‘Elgon south to Nandi’’, and van Someren noted that ‘‘ a large series was collected’’. Paratypes that came to AMNH are AMNH 599396 and 599397 also from the Kibingei River, AMNH 599398 and 599399 from Kibigori, AMNH 599400 from Kaimosi, and AMNH 599401 and 599402 from Kimiriri. There are three paratypes in RMCA ( Louette et al., 2002: 50).

Urban et al. (1997: 327) considered elgonensis a valid race of E. canescens .