Pycnonotus virens poensis Dickerman

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 : 81-82

Pycnonotus virens poensis Dickerman

Pycnonotus virens poensis Dickerman, 1994: 276 (Basepu, ‘‘Fernando Poo’’ (= Bioko)). Now Andropadus virens amadoni (Dickerman, 1997) .

See Dickerman, 1997: 75.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 297652 , adult male, collected at ‘‘ Basepu west’’, Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, on 24 August 1929, by José G. Correia (no. 2347).

COMMENTS: Dickerman (1994: 277) gave the AMNH number of the type and noted that his description was based on 48 specimens from Bioko. Of the 47 paratypes, 23 are at AMNH: AMNH 297638–297651, 297653–297656, 468831, and 567482–567485. Pycnonotus virens poensis Dickerman, 1994 , is preoccupied by Stelgidillas poensis Alexander, 1903 (= Andropadus gracilirostris gracilirostris Strickland, 1844 ). Dickerman (1997: 75) proposed Andropadus virens amadoni as a replacement name. Keith et al. (1992: 279) recognized the genus Andropadus as separate from Pycnonotus .

According to Correia’s journal (Archives, Dept. of Ornithology, AMNH), Basepu was a small plantation about 10 miles west of Santa Isabel, 03°45′N, 08°48′E (Times Atlas), Bioko, where Virginia and José Correia collected between June and September 1929.

See Pasquet et al. (2001) for the results of recent DNA studies.