Ammomanes deserti whitakeri Hartert, 1911

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 deserti whitakeri Hartert

Ammomanes deserti whitakeri Hartert, 1911a: 46 (Koshby) .

Now Ammomanes deserti whitakeri Hartert, 1911 . See Keith et al., 1992: 73.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 558764 , adult male, collected at Koshby, on 16 June 190l, by W. Dodson (no. 189). From the Joseph I.S. Whitaker Collection, Palermo ( Hartert, 1919: 167), via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The original description placed Koshby at ‘‘Djebel Soda, Tripoli’’ (Tripoli = Tarabulus, Libya); the original J.I.S. Whitaker Museum label only has ‘‘Koshby’’, the date, sex, and no. 189 (cited by Hartert). In his list of types, Hartert (1919: 167) listed Djebel Soda in Tripolitania, and there he adds that Dodson was the collector. I did not find ‘‘Koshby’’, but ‘‘Djebel Soda’’ is apparently what is known today as Gebel es­Soda, along the Tripolitania–Fezzan border ( Seltzer, 1962: 1789) (= Jabal as­Sawda, south­west of Sawknah, 29°04′N, 15°47′E [Times Atlas], Sabhah), Libya.