Sylvia undata maroccana 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 : 75

Sylvia undata maroccana Rothschild Sylvia undata tingitana Rothschild

Sylvia undata maroccana Rothschild, 1932a: 82 (J. Mago, Yebala, N.W. Marocco).

Now Sylvia undata toni Hartert, 1909 . See Watson et al., 1986a: 286, and Shirihai et al., 2001: 273–275.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 596596 , adult male, collected on slopes of Jebel Tisouka (5 Jebel

Mago), 3800 ft, 35.10N, 05.13W ( USBGN, 1970), Yebala, northwestern Morocco, on 29 March 1923, by H. Lynes (no. 60). From the Rothschild Collection.

Comments: Rothschild had two males and three females collected by Lynes in Yebala and a male specimen collected by Munn at Alcudia, Majorca, when he described maroccana. He designated as holotype the unique male collected by Lynes on 29 March 1923. Paratypes are AMNH 596554 and 596597– 596600. Subsequently, he discovered that the name maroccana was preoccupied by Sylvia deserticola maroccana Hartert, 1917 , and he supplied the replacement name tingitana ( Rothschild, 1932b: 105). This form was described at about the time that the Rothschild Collection came to AMNH, and it bears an AMNH type label.