Aedon psammochroa, Reichenow, 1879 c: 139

Frahnert, Sylke, Turner, Donald A. & Bracker, Cordula, 2023, Type specimens and type localities of birds (Aves) collected by Gustav Adolf Fischer (1848 - 1886) in East Africa, Zootaxa 5334 (1), pp. 1-84 : 41

Aëdon psammochroa Reichenow, 1879c: 139 .

Now: Cercotrichas galactotes ( Temminck, 1820) , subspecies uncertain. See Reichenow (1905: 656); Jackson & Sclater (1938: 1020).

Holotype: ZMB 24248 (B 15687, Fischer no. 386), skin, former mount, female, juvenile, collected at “Massa”, 05.11.[18]78.

Type locality: “ Massa (Ostafrika)” [ Masabubu , Tana River County, Kenya], from the original description as well as locality of the holotype .

Remarks: In the original description no type was chosen, and there were no inventory numbers for specimens provided, but measurements for one specimen and the locality “Massa” were given. As there is only one Fischer specimen for this species in the ZMB and ZMH collections and only one was mentioned by Fischer &Reichenow(1879: 355) with no. 386 for this species, ZMB 24248 (marked as the type specimen in the collection catalogue) is regarded as the holotype. Reichenow (1905: 656) considered Aedon psammochroa a race of Agrobates familiaris (Ménétriés) , while Jackson & Sclater (1938) referred to this specimen as being synonymous with Agrobates galactotes syriacus (Hemprich & Ehrenberg) , following Meinertzhagen (1922). [See footnote in Sclater 1930: 498.] Two subspecies of Cercotrichas galactotes ( familiaris and syriacus) winter in East Africa, but subspecific assignment of the holotype (a juvenile female) was not possible.