Cisticola Juncidis constans Lynes

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 : 42

[ Cisticola Juncidis constans Lynes ]

Cisticola Juncidis constans Lynes, 1938: 167 (Lombasang (Lompo Batang) 1100 m, S. Celebes).

Now Cisticola juncidis constans Lynes, 1938 . See White and Bruce, 1986: 351, and Coates et al., 1997: 439.

In the original description of this form, Lynes gave Heinrich’s unique field number of the holotype and said that it was in AMNH; his type series comprised 20 Heinrich specimens (see Stresemann, 1940: 98–100) from southern Sulawesi Island (Lombasang, Oeroe and Lalolei), including the holotype. Lynes would have seen these specimens in Berlin, where Stresemann was still studying them. Heinrich’s expedition was jointly sponsored by AMNH and ZMB, between which institutions the collection was to be divided, with types to come to AMNH ( Stresemann, 1931c: 7). However, because of the outbreak of World War II, some of these specimens were not sent to AMNH, and the holotype and all of the paratypes of Cisticola juncidis constans remain in ZMB. The holotype is ZMB 46.187 (Heinrich’s no. 5150) (S. Frahnert, personal commun., 2007).