Cisticola distincta Lynes, 1930

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 : 39

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/313.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12776937
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C087C0-9E39-1021-FF30-48B00A69FC0A
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Cisticola distincta Lynes
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Cisticola distincta Lynes

Cisticola distincta Lynes, 1930: 240 (Kidong Valley, Kenya Colony).

Now Cisticola lais distinctus Lynes, 1930 . See Dowsett and Dowsett-Lemaire, 1993: 359, and Urban et al., 1997: 171.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 263393 About AMNH , adult male, collected on a rocky hill north of Quarantine Station in the Kedong (5 Kidong) Valley, 01.04S, 36.23E ( Chapin, 1954: 679), Kenya, 1 June 1926, by Frank P. Mathews and James P. Chapin, on the Ruwenzori-Kivu Expedition (no. 408). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Lynes cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and listed ( Lynes, 1930: 243) his type series, only one specimen of which, in addition to the holotype, is in AMNH: paratype AMNH 263394, adult female from the same locality.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Aves
Order	Passeriformes
Family	Sylviidae
Genus	Cisticola