Andropadus gracilis extremus Hartert

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 : 82

Andropadus gracilis extremus Hartert

Andropadus gracilis extremus Hartert, 1922b: 369 (near

Mattra, near Sherbro, Jong River, Sierra Leone).

Now Andropadus gracilis extremus Hartert, 1922 . See

Keith et al., 1992: 290.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 567337 , adult male, collected near Mattru , Jong River, Sierra Leone, on 8 October 1912, by Major H. Kelsall (no. 783). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1922b: 369–370) gave Kelsall’s number 783 in the original description and mentioned that there were two additional adult males in the Rothschild Collection as well as others in BMNH. These two male paratypes are now AMNH 567339 and 567340. A juvenile female, AMNH 567338, was not mentioned but is part of the same Kelsall series. Ansorge specimens from the Lower Niger, said by Hartert (1922b: 370) to ‘‘appear to be the same race, though some approach A. gracilis gracilis ’’, are AMNH 567370, 567372, and 567380–567385.

Kelsall (1914: map opp. p. 196) placed Mattru at approximately 07°30′N, 12°10′W. It was in the northern part of what was then Sherbro District (not near present­day Sherbro).