Malaconotus interpositus 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 : 100

Malaconotus interpositus Hartert

Malaconotus interpositus Hartert, 1911b: 36 (districts northwest of Lake Tanganyika).

Now Malaconotus blanchoti interpositus Hartert, 1911 . See Fry et al., 2000: 389.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 663941 , adult male, collected 40 km west of Baraka , 04°09′S, 29°05′E (Times Atlas), Congo (Kinshasa), on 5 January 1909, by Rudolf Grauer (no. 4019). From the Rothschild collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert (1911b: 36) did not designate a type but mentioned that the original series consisted of seven Grauer specimens from districts northwest of Lake Tanganyika and a specimen collected by W.J. Ansorge at Caiala, Bihe´, Angola. Later, Hartert (1920: 452) designated the above specimen the lectotype. Actually, seven Grauer specimens, in addition to the lectotype, and the Ansorge specimen came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. These paralectotypes are AMNH 663938– 663940 and 663942–663946.