Graueria vittata Hartert, 1908

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 : 55

Graueria vittata Hartert

Graueria vittata Hartert, 1908c: 8 (Primeval forest, 90 km. west of Lake Albert Edward, 1600 m. above sea-level).

Now Graueria vittata Hartert, 1908 . See Urban et al., 1997: 310–311.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 588497 , adult male, collected in the primeval forest, 90 km west of Lake Edward (5 Albert Edward), 1600 m, ca. 00.25S, 29.30E ( Polhill, 1988: 53), on 8 February 1908, by Rudolf Grauer (no. 1987). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert cited Grauer’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description and noted that he had six specimens, including the type, from Lake Albert Edward and the Rugege forest, southeast of Lake Kivu. Paratypes are AMNH 588496 and 588498–588501. AMNH 588498 was exchanged with RMCA on 12 April 1950 (see Louette et al., 2002: 50–51).

G. vittata is the type species of the genus Graueria , described at the same time.