Galerida cristata alexanderi Neumann, 1908

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 : 20

Galerida cristata alexanderi Neumann

Galerida cristata alexanderi Neumann, 1908d: 45

(Bautchi).

Now Galerida cristata alexanderi Neumann, 1908 . See

Keith et al., 1992: 101.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 557362 , adult male, collected at Bauchi, 10°16′N, 09°50′E (Times Atlas), Nigeria, on 11 September 1904, by Boyd Alexander (no. 368). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Neumann (1908d: 45) did not give Alexander’s number but said that the type was a male in the Rothschild Collection. Only two specimens collected by Alexander at Bauchi are now in AMNH, and the above specimen is the only male. Neumann did not indicate how many specimens he had, although he gave measurements for one male and more than one female. AMNH 557363, adult female, collected at Bauchi, on 14 September 1906, by Boyd Adexander, is a paratype. There are no other specimens of this taxon now in AMNH collected before Neumann’s 1908 description.