Sigmodus scopifrons keniensis 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 : 94

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scientific name	Sigmodus scopifrons keniensis van Someren
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Treatment

Sigmodus scopifrons keniensis van Someren, 1923a: 80 (Meru, N.E. Mt. Kenia).

Now Prionops scopifrons keniensis (van Someren, 1923) View in CoL . See Fry et al., 2000: 501.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 656140 About AMNH , adult female, collected at Meru, Kenya, on 3 January 1921, by Noel van Someren. From the V. G.L. van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In his original description, van Someren (1923a: 80) stated that the type was in the Rothschild Collection. This is the only van Someren specimen of this taxon in AMNH collected at Meru on 3 January 1921. AMNH 656141 and 656142 are paratypes.

References

Fry, C. H., S. Keith, and E. K. Urban (editors). 2000. The birds of Africa, vol. 6. London: Academic Press, 724 pp.

van Someren, V. G. L. 1923 a. [Dr. V. G. L. van Someren sent the following description of a new Sigmodus: -.] Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 43: 80.