Hirundo senegalensis hybrida van Someren

LeCroy, M., 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,, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2003 (278), pp. 1-156 : 35

Hirundo senegalensis hybrida van Someren

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 , 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.

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 .