Cisticola cisticola neurotica Meinertzhagen

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 cisticola neurotica Meinertzhagen

Cisticola cisticola neurotica Meinertzhagen, 1920: 25 (Sidon on the Syrian coast).

Now Cisticola juncidis neuroticus Meinertzhagen, 1920 . See Lynes, 1930: 88–89, 651, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 458.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 592592 , adult male, collected at Säida (5 Sidon), 33.32N, 35.22E (Times Atlas), Lebanon, on 30 October 1919, by Richard Meinertzhagen. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Meinertzhagen listed the type in the Rothschild Collection, citing the above data. He did not say how many specimens he examined, although he gave measurements for more than one. Only one paratype came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection: AMNH 592593, a male collected at Artuft on 1 November 1918. A specimen in the Rothschild Collection (now AMNH 592594) from Mesopotamia was excluded from the type series.