Riparia cincta suahelica van Someren

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 : 33

Riparia cincta suahelica van Someren

Riparia cincta suahelica van Someren, 1922: 90 (Escarpment) .

Now Riparia cincta suahelica van Someren, 1922 . See

Keith et al., 1992: 144.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 559476 , adult male, collected at ‘‘ Escarpment’ ’, 8000 ft, Kikuyu Mts., Kenya, in 1901, by William Doherty. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, the type, with the above data, was said to be in the Rothschild Collection. It has an original field label with ‘‘type’’ written on it in van Someren’s hand, a Rothschild Museum label, and an AMNH type label. The only other Doherty specimen is AMNH 559477, said to be a Doherty specimen on the Rothschild label but lacking a field label or further data. Hartert apparently missed this type in his lists of types in the Rothschild Collection. Van Someren mentioned that he had studied 11 specimens of the new taxon. Of the 10 paratypes, seven are at AMNH. Six are van Someren specimens, AMNH 559478–559483, and the seventh is the above­mentioned Doherty specimen, AMNH 559477. There is one paratype in RMCA ( Louette et al., 2002: 28).

See Riparia paludicola dohertyi for a description of this locality.