Miraffra [sic] bucolica Hartlaub

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 : 25

Miraffra [sic] bucolica Hartlaub

Miraffra [sic] bucolica Hartlaub, 1887: 327 (Fadjuli, Tamaja, Kabajendi, Kudurma) .

Now Galerida modesta bucolica ( Hartlaub, 1887) . See Keith et al., 1992: 95.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 557007 , adult male, collect­ ed at Fadjuli , Uganda, in March 1882, by Emin Pasha (no. 6) ; and AMNH 557008 , adult female, collected at Kabajendi , Sudan, on 1 November 1882, by Emin Pasha (no. 209). From the Rothschild Collection .

COMMENTS: Hartert (1919: 165) listed these two specimens as ‘‘Cotypes’’. In the original description, Hartlaub (1887: 327) mentioned that he had six specimens: a male and female from Fadjuli, a male and female from Tamaja, a female from Kabajendi, and a male from Kudurma (from the Shelley Collection). In addition to the above syntypes, there is a third specimen, now AMNH 557009. The original label has been lost, but Emin Pasha is said to be the collector on the Rothschild label, which also gives the locality as ‘‘?Kuderma’’. A second label has the locality almost completely obliterated, but one can tell that it is not ‘‘Kuderma’’. This specimen is unsexed and was not included in the six specimens listed by Hartlaub, all of which were sexed.

The Kudurma specimen, listed by Hartlaub as from the Shelley Collection, is now in BMNH ( Sharpe, 1890: 624). It was listed by Sharpe (1890: 624) as Hartlaub’s specimen no. 6 from the Shelley Collection but was not listed as a syntype by either Sharpe or Warren and Harrison (1971). Other specimens are not in Bremen (P.R. Becker, personal commun.) or Vienna (H. Schifter, personal commun.).

Sclater (1930: 326) restricted the type locality to Tamaja.

Map 2 in Stuhlmann (1916) showed the area in which Emin Pasha collected in 1882. Chapin (1954) gave the coordinates of Kabajendi (Kabayendi) as 04°32′N, 30°05′E and of Fadjuli (Pajule) as 02°58′N, 32°55′E.