Apalis flavida malensis Neumann

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 : 50

Apalis flavida malensis Neumann

Apalis flavida malensis Neumann, 1905a: 78 (Schambala-Fluss, Male-Land) .

Now Apalis flavida flavocincta (Sharpe, 1882) . See Watson et al., 1986a: 162, and Urban et al., 1997: 263.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 598833 , adult male, collected at the K’ulecho Shet’ (5 Shambara 5 Schambala River), 06.30N, 37.12E

( USBGN, 1982b), Ethiopia, on 21 January 1901, by Oscar Neumann (no. 631). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Neumann (1906a: 278) had the single specimen. Confusion exists concerning the original description of this subspecies. The original description was by Neumann (1905a: 78) in the May issue of Ornithologische Monatsberichte, on p. 76 of which he noted that these were preliminary descriptions that would be expanded upon in the last part of his paper to appear in the October issue of Journal für Ornithologie. The last part of his paper appeared in two parts, one in the October 1905 issue and the other in April 1906. Neumann (1906a: 278) did expand on his earlier description, but unfortunately this treatment was also labeled ‘‘nov. subsp.’’. Meanwhile, Reichenow’s (1905) third volume of Die Vögel Afrikas had been published. On p. 612, published in October 1905 ( Reichenow, 1905: 880), malensis is referred to as a Neumann manuscript name, when in fact it had already been published in May. Watson et al. (1986a: 162) and other authors incorrectly refer to the description as Neumann in Reichenow (1905: 612).