Ammomanes deserti annae Meinertzhagen, 1923

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 12-13

Ammomanes deserti annae Meinertzhagen

Ammomanes deserti annae Meinertzhagen, 1923a: 147

(30 miles east of Azraq (60 miles east of Amman, on the Hejaz Railway, in Transjordania)).

Now Ammomanes deserti annae Meinertzhagen, 1923 .

See Vaurie, 1959: 23, and Cramp, 1988: 65.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 558766 , collected 30 mi. E of Azraq , 31°50′N, 36°47′E (Times Atlas), Jordan, on 27 October 1922, by Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, the type was listed as a female with the above data. On the Meinertzhagen label, the sex of the holotype was marked ϐ, changed to ♀, then rewritten as ♀, apparently in Meinertzhagen’s hand. Hartert (1928: 201) gave the sex as male, without comment.

Meinertzhagen had six males and four females of this taxon, but he stated that the type was in the Tring Museum; the above specimen is the only one of this taxon that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. It bears the Rothschild type label, and ‘‘ Ammomanes deserti annae , TYPE’’ is written on the reverse of Meinertzhagen’s label in a hand unknown .