Pycnonotus dodsoni teitensis 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 : 80-81

Pycnonotus dodsoni teitensis van Someren

Pycnonotus dodsoni teitensis van Someren, 1922: 190 (Tsavo) .

Now Pycnonotus barbatus dodsoni Sharpe, 1895 . See Hartert, 1928: 222, and Keith et al., 1992: 366.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 568159 , adult male, collected at Tsavo , 02°59′S, 38°28′E (Times Atlas), Kenya, on 26 March 1918, by Victor G.L. van Someren. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren (1922: 190) said that the type, collected on 26 March 1918, was in the Rothschild Collection and listed eight specimens of P. d. teitensis. Three came to AMNH. The above specimen is the only one from Tsavo collected on 26 March. Paratypes in AMNH are AMNH 568160 and 568161.

Sibley and Monroe (1990: 583) treated dodsoni as a species in the superspecies cafer . See Pasquet et al. (2001) for the results of recent DNA studies.