Empidornis semipartitus orleansi Rothschild

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

Empidornis semipartitus orleansi Rothschild

Empidornis semipartitus orleansi Rothschild, 1922: 45 (Rejaf) .

Now Empidornis semipartitus (Rüppell, 1840) . See Watson et al., 1986b: 297, and Urban et al., 1997: 459.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 603501 , adult male, collected at Rejaf , 04.47N, 31.35E (Times Atlas), Sudan, on 20 February 1922, by the Duc d’Orleans. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Rothschild designated as type a specimen with the above data. Paratypes are AMNH 603502 , male, 22 February 1922, Rejaf ; AMNH 603503 , male, no date, collected by Grauer at Nimule, Uganda ; AMNH 603504 , male, 20 February 1906, collected by Seth-Smith at Nimule ; and AMNH 603505 , male, 8 March 1906, collected near Gondokoro, Uganda, by Seth-Smith .