Melaenornis lugubris ugandae 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 : 78-79

Melaenornis lugubris ugandae van Someren

Melaenornis lugubris ugandae van Someren, 1921: 104 (Sezibwa) .

Now Melaenornis edolioides lugubris (Müller, 1851) . See Watson et al., 1986b: 305, and Urban et al., 1997: 445.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 603092 , adult male, collected on the Sezibwa River (as on label), 00.16N, 33.02E – 01.22N, 32.45E ( Polhill, 1988), Uganda, on 16 October 1915, by V.G.L. van Someren. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren said that his type was a male collected at Sezibwa (5 Sezibwa River) on 16 October 1915 and was in the Rothschild Collection. The above specimen is the only male collected on this date, its label is marked ‘‘Type’’ by van Someren, and it bears a Rothschild type label. Paratypes from the van Someren collection that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection are: AMNH 603093 from Sezibwa River, AMNH 603104– 603107 from Masindi, AMNH 603108 from Entebbe, and AMNH 603111 from Budongo. AMNH 603107 was exchanged to NHMZ.

When van Someren (1922: 93) wrote his large paper on the birds of East Africa, he listed this form as a new subspecies; however, the description had been published earlier, in 1921.