Harpolestes senegalus confusus 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 : 96

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scientific name	Harpolestes senegalus confusus van Someren
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Harpolestes senegalus confusus van Someren, 1922: 113 (Umfalosi, Zululand) .

Now Tchagra senegala orientalis (Cabanis, 1869) . See Fry et al., 2000: 427.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 663417 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Umfolozi Station , 28°27′S, 32°10′E ( Skead, 1973), 201 ft, Natal, South Africa, on 2 August 1904, by Claude H.B. Grant. From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren (1922: 113) stated that the type was in the Rothschild Collection. This is the only Grant specimen of this taxon that came to AMNH, and data on it match that ascribed to the type in the original description.