Hirundo senegalensis hybrida van Someren

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0090(2003)278<0001:tsobit>2.0.co;2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12775749
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scientific name	Hirundo senegalensis hybrida van Someren
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Hirundo senegalensis hybrida van Someren, 1921a: 104 (Tsavo) .

Now Hirundo senegalensis monteiri Hartlaub, 1862 . See Peters, 1960b: 115, and Keith et al., 1992: 151.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 560688 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Tsavo, 02°59′S, 38°28′E (Times Atlas), on 29 March 1918, by Dr. V.[G.] L. van Someren. From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description, the type bearing the above data, was said to be in the Rothschild Collection. There are five paratypes in AMNH: AMNH 560689 and 560690, females from Tsavo; AMNH 560692, male from Samburu; and AMNH 560694 and 560695, females from M’buyuni. Another paratype is in RMCA ( Louette et al., 2002: 28). Peters (1960b: 115) included this species in Cecropis .

References

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

Louette, M., D. Meirte, A. Louage, and A. Reygel. 2002. Type specimens of birds in the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren. Documentation Zoologique, Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale Tervuren, Belgique, 26: 3 - 105.

Peters, J. L. 1960 b. Family Hirundinidae. In E. Mayr and J. C. Greenway, Jr. (editors), Check-list of birds of the world, vol. 9: 80 - 129. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 506 pp.

van Someren, V. G. L. 1921 a. [Dr. V. J. [sic] L. van Someren sent descriptions of the following African birds, the types of which are in the Tring Museum: -.] Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 41: 102 - 106.