Galerida cristata tardinata Hartert

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 : 22

Galerida cristata tardinata Hartert

Galerida cristata tardinata Hartert, 1904a: 235 (Dthubiyat, W.­ Hadramaut).

Now Galerida cristata altirostris ( Brehm, 1855) . See

Meinertzhagen, 1951: 120, and Keith et al., 1992:

101.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 557705 , adult female, collected at Dthùbiya , South Yemen, on 21 August 1903, by G. Wyman Bury (no. 239). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert cited Bury’s number 239 in his original description and noted that he had studied the holotype and 26 additional specimens. Twenty­two of the paratypes came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection: AMNH 557706– 557714 collected by Bury, and AMNH 557715– 557726 and AMNH 577734 collected by W. Dodson.

In Bury’s book, written under his Arab name of Abdullah Mansûr (1911), Dthùbiya (spelled variously as Dthùbiyat, Dthùbiah, and Dthùbiyah) is shown on his map a short distance south and east of Awàbil, 13°50′N, 44°52′E ( Seltzer, 1962: 129), Shaibi sheikdom, South Yemen. Mansûr (1911: 36–37) noted that they went to Awàbil to get guides and that Dthùbiya ‘‘lay among a sea of small kopjes, accessible only by a narrow mountain path... ’’.