Psalidoprocne nitens centralis Neumann, 1904

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 : 39

Psalidoprocne nitens centralis Neumann

Psalidoprocne nitens centralis Neumann, 1904b: 144

(Kitima Station am Ituri).

Now Psalidoprocne nitens centralis Neumann, 1904 .

See Keith et al., 1992: 129.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 560915 , adult male, collected at Kitima , 01°18′N, 27°55′E ( Chapin, 1954: 682), a government station on the Ituri River, Congo (Kinshasa), on 25 May 1899, by Dr. William J. Ansorge (no. 498).

COMMENTS: Neumann (1904b: 144) noted that the type bearing the above data was in the Rothschild Collection, but did not give the Ansorge field number. Hartert (1922 b, 1928) failed to include this taxon in his type lists. Three males collected by Ansorge on the same date and at the same locality came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. AMNH 560915 is the specimen bearing the Rothschild type label, and the Ansorge label is marked ‘‘Psalid. nitens rothschildi (which is marked out) centralis Neum. Typus’’ in Neumann’s hand. It was undoubtedly Neumann’s intent that this specimen should be the type, and it has been so considered, both in the Rothschild Collection and at AMNH. In order to remove all ambiguity, I hereby designate it the lectotype. Paralectotypes are AMNH 560916 and 560917.