Cisticola hypoxantha Hartlaub

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 : 41

Cisticola hypoxantha Hartlaub

Cisticola hypoxantha Hartlaub, 1881a: 624 (Magungo) .

Now Cisticola brachypterus hypoxanthus Hartlaub, 1881 . See Lynes, 1930: 474–476, 637, and Urban et al., 1997: 191.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 594088 , immature male, collected at Magungo , 02.15N, 31.30E ( Chapin, 1954: 695), Lake Albert , Uganda, on 19 November 1879, by Emin Pasha (5 Emin Bey) (no. 122). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartlaub said that he had a single specimen. Hartert (1920: 467) called attention to the immaturity of the type and noted that Hartlaub mistakenly gave the collecting date as December 11; the date on Emin’s label is quite clearly 19.11.79. Watson et al. (1986a: 111) did not recognize C. b. hypoxanthus .

This form was listed as a new species in two different Hartlaub publications, both apparently published in April 1881. Duncan (1937: 73) gave April 1881 as the date of publication of part 4 of the 1880 Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, which includes p. 624. Hartlaub’s (1881b: 83–128) report on Emin’s complete collection, where ( Hartlaub, 1881b: 89) this taxon is listed as a new species, also appeared in April 1881, according to the contents page of the volume; the date ‘‘ February 1881 ’’ that appears at the bottom of the first page of this article evidently refers to the date of the meeting at which the paper was read. However, Hartlaub (1881b: 89) there referred to the description in the Proceedings, including the page number. Hartlaub may therefore be considered the First Reviser (ICZN, 1999: 30, Art. 24.2.1). This is also in accordance with Recommendation 24B (ICZN, 1999: 31), as most attributions of authorship refer to publication in the Proceedings.