Lanius gubernator Hartlaub, 1882

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 : 101

Lanius gubernator Hartlaub

Lanius gubernator Hartlaub, 1882a: 91 (Centralafrika) . Now Lanius gubernator Hartlaub, 1882 . See Fry et al.,

2000: 367.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 661560 , adult male, collected at Langomeri, 03°47′N, 30°45′E ( Chapin, 1954: 686), by Emin Pasha. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: As Hartert (1920: 451) pointed out, only the male was described by Hartlaub (1882a: 91). Hartert (1920: 451–452) further noted that in a subsequent paper Hartlaub (1882b: 324) mentioned four specimens from Langomeri, an adult male, an adult female, and two young birds, all four of which were in the Rothschild Collection. The other three specimens are paratypes: AMNH 661561, juv., AMNH 661562, female imm., and AMNH 661563, adult female.

Hartert (1920: 452) also noted the following inconsistencies in Hartlaub’s (1882b: 323–324) account. Even though a female symbol indicated that a description was to follow, the female was never described; and only the male of L. gubernator was figured in plate 1, fig. 2, although on p. 323 it was said to be a female.