Ammomanes phoenicurus testaceus Koelz, 1951

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 : 11

[ Ammomanes phoenicurus testaceus Koelz ]

COMMENTS: Koelz (1951: 3) apparently planned to deposit the type of this taxon at AMNH. However, this was never done, and the type is now FMNH no. 246492 (David Williard, personal commun.).

Ammomanes deserti payni Hartert

Ammomanes deserti payni Hartert, 1924c: 36 (Figuig) . Now Ammomanes deserti payni Hartert, 1924 . See Keith et al., 1992: 73.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 558640 , adult male, collected at Figuig , 32°10′N, 01°15′W (Times Atlas), Morocco, on 19 March 1924, by Lt. Col. W.A. Payn. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Five specimens of A. d. payni are mentioned in the original description, three of them collected in March near Figuig and presumably by Payn. In the original description, Hartert (1924c: 36) said that the type was in the Rothschild Collection. AMNH 558640 is the only specimen of this taxon collected by Lt. Col. Payn that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection and the data match those listed by Hartert for the type. The whereabouts of the other two Figuig specimens is not known. AMNH 558643 and 558644, collected at Ain Sefra, Algeria, on 7 May 1913 by Rothschild, Hartert and Hilgert, are paratypes.