Anthus gouldi prunus Meinertzhagen

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 : 47

Anthus gouldi prunus Meinertzhagen

Anthus gouldi prunus Meinertzhagen, 1920: 24 (Catatu River (Benguella in Angolaland)).

Now Anthus leucophrys bohndorffi Neumann, 1906 . See Vaurie et al., 1960: 150, and Keith et al., 1992: 226. HOLOTYPE: AMNH 571357, adult male, collected on the Cutato river, Angola, on 29 September 1904, by Dr. William J. Ansorge (no. x138). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Meinertzhagen (1920: 24) stated that the type with the above data was in the Rothschild Collection. This is the only Ansorge specimen from that locality that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection and was listed as the type by Hartert (1928: 203). On the field label, Ansorge has written the locality as ‘‘Cutatu river’’, which I interpret as the river at Cutatu (= Cutato). Hall (1959: 114) discussed this locality and placed it between Vouga (12°14′S, 16°47′ E, Crawford­Cabral and Mesquitela, 1989), Bie, and [Missão do] Dondi (12°32′S, 16°15′ E, Crawford­Cabral and Mesquitela, 1989), Huambo.