Harpolestes australis littoralis 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 : 97

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scientific name	Harpolestes australis littoralis van Someren
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Harpolestes australis littoralis van Someren, 1921a: 102

(Changamwe).

Now Tchagra australis minor (Reichenow, 1887) . See

Fry et al., 2000: 422.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 663188 About AMNH , adult female, collected at Changamwe , 04°00′S, 39°34′E ( Spawls, 1978: 13), Kenya, on 18 July 1918 (not 1912). From the V. G.L. van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: The type was stated to be in the Rothschild Collection. Of the seven skins examined by van Someren, only four came to AMNH ; this is the only one collected on 18 July 1918. AMNH 663187 About AMNH , 663189 About AMNH , and 663190 are paratypes. The specimens were all collected in 1918 and 1919 ; the 1912 date in the original description is apparently a misprint. It was corrected without comment by Hartert (1928: 211).

References

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

Hartert, E. 1928. Types of birds in the Tring Museum. C. Additional and overlooked types. Novitates Zoologicae 34: 189 - 230.

Spawls, S. 1978. A checklist of the snakes of Kenya. Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society and National Museum 31 (167): 1 - 18.

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.