Bradornis murinus suahelicus 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 : 77

Bradornis murinus suahelicus van Someren

Bradornis murinus suahelicus van Someren, 1921: 104 (Londiani) .

Now Bradornis pallidus murinus Hartlaub and Finsch, 1870 . See Watson et al., 1986b: 299, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 103–104.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 603344 , adult female, collected at Londiani , 00.10S, 35.36E (Times Atlas), Kenya, on 12 December 1912, by V.G.L. van Someren. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren said that his type with the above data was in the Rothschild Collection. AMNH 603344 is the only van Someren specimen of this form in AMNH from Londiani or any of the other localities mentioned.

Urban et al. (1997: 450) and Dickinson (2003: 689) included this taxon in the genus Melaenornis . In Finsch and Hartlaub (1870: 866), the description of murinus is credited to Hartlaub and Finsch.