Sylvia undata toni Hartert, 1909

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 : 75

Sylvia undata toni Hartert

Sylvia undata toni Hartert, 1909: 602 (südlich von Biskra).

Now Sylvia undata toni Hartert, 1909 . See Shirihai et al., 2001: 273–275.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 596602 , adult unsexed, collected south of Biskra, 34.50N, 05.41E (Times Atlas), Algeria, on 14 January 1903, by E. Flückiger (no. 327). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert cited Flückiger’s unique field number for the holotype in the original description. He did not say how many specimens he examined; however, he gave the range of the form as ‘‘ Algerien, Marokko, Tunis’ ’ and examined specimens in collections in London , Ingelheim , and Liverpool besides Rothschild specimens. There are only two possible paratypes that were in the Rothschild Collection prior to the description of toni. AMNH 596601 , female, was collected at ‘‘El-Dimd-Safsaf’’, west Algeria, on 13 April 1851, by an unknown collector ; AMNH 596620 , male, was collected in spring (1836?) in Algeria. Hartert has noted on the label ‘‘ Coll. Riocour par Petit, from Loche’ ’ and ‘‘looks as brown as dartfordiansis!’’ I have no information about when these specimens were acquired by Rothschild .