Cisticola tinniens oreophila van Someren

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 : 40

Cisticola tinniens oreophila van Someren

Cisticola tinniens oreophila van Someren, 1922: 214 ( Kenia).

Now Cisticola tinniens oreophilus van Someren, 1922 . See Lynes, 1930: 554–555, 654, and Urban et al., 1997: 181.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 594344 , unsexed but published as a male, collected on Mount Kenya (5 Kenia), 7000 ft, ca. 00.09S, 37.19E ( Polhill, 1988), Kenya, on 12 February 1919, by V.G.L. van Someren. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, the type was said to have been collected on 12 February 1919 and to be in the Rothschild Collection. Three specimens now in AMNH have labels stamped ‘‘ Kenia. Feb./19, 7000 ft’’. AMNH 594344 has had ‘‘12’’ added to the date ; its label is marked ‘‘Type’’, and it bears a Rothschild type label. No other specimens are from Mt. Kenya .

Of six males, four females, and two juveniles listed by van Someren, the following paratypes came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection : AMNH 594345 , unsexed, Kenia, Feb. 1919 ; AMNH 594346 , unsexed immature, Kenia, Feb. 1919 ; AMNH 594347 , male, Naivasha hills, August, 1917 ; AMNH 594348 , female, Kinangop , 18 June 1917 ; and AMNH 594349 , female, ‘‘ Burnt Forest’ ’, 22 September 1918. The other two female paratypes are in RMCA ( Louette et al., 2002: 49) .