Dioptrornis semicinctus Hartert

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

Dioptrornis semicinctus Hartert

Dioptrornis semicinctus Hartert, 1916c: 4 (Kabakaba, Eastern Congo Free State).

Now Melaenornis fischeri semicinctus (Hartert, 1916) . See Urban et al., 1997: 440.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 450919 , adult female, collected at Kabakaba , 02.11N, 30.45E ( Chapin, 1954: 670), Congo (Kinshasa), on 5 September 1906, by C.F. Camburn (no. 408). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert gave Camburn’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description. Later, Hartert (1920: 489) noted that he had a single specimen. The collecting locality and date appear on the original label. Chapin’s notes on C.F. Camburn (AMNH Dept. of Ornithology Archives), which give his itinerary from 10 July 1906 to 14 September 1906, confirm that he was at Kabakaba on 5 September (based on a specimen of Vidua macroura ). Chapin derived this itinerary from locality data on 32 skins that Camburn collected during the first 2 weeks of September 1906.

This specimen had originally been in the Baron Maurice de Rothschild Collection.