Parisoma blanfordi distincta 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 : 73-74

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/313.1
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scientific name	Parisoma blanfordi distincta Hartert
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Parisoma blanfordi distincta Hartert, 1917a: 459 ( Gerba, South Arabia).

Now Sylvia leucomelaena leucomelaena (Hemprich and Ehrenberg, 1833) View in CoL . See Shirihai et al., 2001: 196.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 608806 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Gerba, Amiri District , South Yemen (5 South Arabia), on 15 November, by G. Wyman Bury (no. 511). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert gave Bury’s unique field number of the holotype. Paratypes are AMNH 608807 About AMNH , 16 About AMNH June ; AMNH 608808 About AMNH , 13 About AMNH October ; and AMNH 608809 About AMNH , 15 About AMNH November, from Gerba ; AMNH 608810 About AMNH , 21 About AMNH March, from El Kubar ; and AMNH 608811 About AMNH , 8 April 1913, from Hajeilah. Hartert noted that he had 15 specimens of distincta , presumably including the type, only 6 of which came to AMNH. Hartert’s report was based on the part of Bury’s 1912–1913 collection that went to Rothschild ; the remainder went to BMNH. Sclater (1917: 158), who reported on the BMNH portion, listed a single Bury specimen of this form as Sylvia blanfordi , but said that the BMNH had numerous specimens from various localities in southern Arabia. Hartert might well have borrowed specimens for comparison .

Only one of the type series of distincta at AMNH was definitely part of the 1912–1913 collection, paratype AMNH 608811 collected at Hajeilah on 8 April 1913. The Rothschild label on this specimen is printed ‘‘ Yemen, S.W. Arabia 1912–1913’’. The labels on the holotype and the other four paratypes are printed ‘‘S. Arabia’’, with no year given. According to Meinertzhagen (1954: 579), Bury collected in Gerba and El Kubar, Amiri District north of Aden in the vicinity of Lahej, 13.01N, 44.54E (Times Atlas), South Yemen, in 1901 and 1902. R. Dowsett (personal commun.) wrote that Gerba is the type locality of Lanius arabicus ( Ogilvie-Grant, 1905: 78) , with syntypes registered in BMNH in 1902. While most of that collection went to BMNH and was not reported on as a whole, some of the specimens apparently were acquired by Rothschild.