Psalidoprocne holomelaena massaica Neumann

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 : 40

Psalidoprocne holomelaena massaica Neumann

Psalidoprocne holomelaena massaica Neumann, 1904b:

144 (Kikuyu). Now Psalidoprocne pristoptera massaica Neumann ,

1904. See Keith et al., 1992: 131.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 560884 , adult male, collected at ‘‘ Escarpment’ ’, 8000 ft, Kikuyu Mts., Kenya, in December 1900, by William Doherty. From the Rothschild Collection

COMMENTS: In the original description, Neumann (1904b: 144) listed the type as an adult male specimen in the Rothschild Collection bearing the above data. There are two male specimens with the same data, but the second one is a juvenile. The above holotype bears the Rothschild type label and the Doherty label is noted by Neumann: ‘‘ Ps. holomelaena massaica Neum. Typus’’. Neumann (1904b: 144) listed a number of localities in the East African mountains as within the range of this form. Only Doherty’s specimens from the Kikuyu Mountains came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection; they are paratypes AMNH 560885–560890.

See Riparia paludicola dohertyi for a description of this locality.