Anthus blayneyi 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 : 52

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090(2003)278<0001:tsobit>2.0.co;2
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scientific name	Anthus blayneyi van Someren
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Anthus blayneyi van Someren, 1919b: 56 (Olgerei) . Now Anthus caffer blayneyi van Someren, 1919 View in CoL . See

Keith et al., 1992: 232.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 571322 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Lolgerein (= Olgerei), 01°14′S, 34°49′E (Times Atlas), Kenya, on 1 July 1917, by A. Blayney Percival. From the V. G.L. van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Van Someren (1919b: 56–57) noted that the type was in the Rothschild Collection and said that he had 10 specimens. This is one of three of his specimens of this taxon that AMNH received with the Rothschild Collection and is the only male. The field label has ‘‘type’’ written in van Someren’s hand, and a Rothschild type label is attached. The other two specimens, AMNH 571323 and 571324, are paratypes. Because van Someren’s collection has been dispersed among many museums, the other seven paratypes are probably widely scattered, one of them being in RMCA ( Louette et al., 2002: 28).