Trochocercus nigromitratus colstoni Dickerman

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 : 188

Trochocercus nigromitratus colstoni Dickerman

Trochocercus nigromitratus colstoni Dickerman (in Dickerman et al.), 1994: 272 (1 km east, 12 km north of Zigida (or Ziggida), 750 m, Lofa County, Liberia).

Now Elminia nigromitrata colstoni ( Dickerman, 1994) . See Urban et al., 1997: 520.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 827744 , adult male, collected 1 km east, 12 km north of Zigida (or Ziggida), 750 m, 08.02N, 09.29W ( USBGN, 1976a), Lofa County, Liberia, on 13 March 1990, by C. Gregory Schmitt (no. CGS 5240).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. The type series, including the holotype, comprised 29 specimens from Liberia and one from Nigeria. Six of the paratypes from Liberia are at AMNH (AMNH 825556, 825557, 827743, 827745, 827746, and 827747), as is the paratype from Nigeria, AMNH 789165. Dickerman noted that he had examined specimens in BMNH, and perhaps other paratypes are there.

Watson et al. (1986c: 468) included the genera Trochocercus and Elminia in the family Monarchidae ; Urban et al. (1997: 520) and del Hoyo et al. (2006: 326) also included Elminia nigromitratus in the family Monarchidae ; Pasquet et al. (2002: 115–116) suggested removing Elminia from that family; and Dickinson (2003: 576) placed it as genus incertae sedis at the end of the family Pycnonotidae .