Camaroptera griseoviridis harterti Zedlitz

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 : 54

Camaroptera griseoviridis harterti Zedlitz

Camaroptera griseoviridis harterti Zedlitz, 1911: 342 (Canhoca, Nord-Angola) .

Now Camaroptera harterti Zedlitz, 1911 . See del Hoyo et al., 2006: 482.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 599740 , adult male, collected at Canhoca , 09.15S, 14.41E ( Dean, 2000: 372), Angola, on 20 November 1903, by W.J. Ansorge (no. 1198). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Zedlitz said that the type in the Rothschild Collection was collected at Canhoca on 20 November 1903 by Ansorge. Three specimens bearing those data were collected by Ansorge, and Hartert (1920: 459) designated the above specimen with Ansorge’s unique field number as the lectotype. This specimen has ‘‘*Typus’’ written on Ansorge’s label by Zedlitz and bears the Rothschild type label.

Zedlitz (1911: 344–345) borrowed widely for his study of Camaroptera , and he labeled those specimens he used with the name and his initials. There are only two additional specimens of harterti so labeled by Zedlitz and now in AMNH: paralectotypes AMNH 599741, male, Canhoca, 20 November 1903, Ansorge number 1199, and AMNH 599745, male, Canhoca, 23 November 1903, Ansorge number 1234. I have not considered other Ansorge specimens identified as harterti to be part of Zedlitz’s type series.

See Hartert (1920: 459) and Urban et al. (1997: 296) for summaries of taxonomic treatments. Dickinson (2003: 562) and Dean (2000: 236) treated harterti as a subspecies of C. brachyura (Vieillot, 1820) .