Hirundo aethiopica fulvipectus Amadon

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 : 35

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https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0090(2003)278<0001:tsobit>2.0.co;2

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12775747

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scientific name

Hirundo aethiopica fulvipectus Amadon
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Hirundo aethiopica fulvipectus Amadon

Hirundo aethiopica fulvipectus Amadon, 1954: 3 (Farniso (near Kano), Nigeria).

Now Hirundo aethiopica aethiopica Blanford, 1869 View in CoL . See White, 1956: 160, and Keith et al., 1992: 185.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 560214 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Fanisau (= Farniso), 12°05′N, 08°32′E ( R. J. Dowsett, personal commun.), Nigeria, on 12 April 1922, by A. Buchanan (no. 24). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: The AMNH number was cited in the original description. Amadon did not say how many specimens he examined.

Amadon, D. 1954. Three new subspecies of birds from Africa. American Museum Novitates 1656: 1 - 4.

Keith, S., E. K. Urban, and C. H. Fry. 1992. The birds of Africa, vol. 4. Broadbills to Chats. London: Academic Press, 609 pp.

White, C. M. N. 1956. A new race of swallow from Somaliland. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 76: 160.

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Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Hirundinidae

Genus

Hirundo