Prinia gracilis yemenensis Hartert, 1909

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 47

Prinia gracilis yemenensis Hartert

Prinia gracilis yemenensis Hartert, 1909: 609 (Scheik Osman bei Aden).

Now Prinia gracilis yemenensis Hartert, 1909 . See del Hoyo et al., 2006: 432–433.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 600065 , adult male, collected at Sheikh ’ Othman or Shaykh ’ Uthmān (5 Scheik Osman), 12.53N, 44.58E (Times Atlas), near Aden, southern Arabia , on 20 November 1898, by W.R. Ogilvie-Grant (no. 8). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert gave Ogilvie-Grant’s unique field number of the type in the original description. He did not mention other specimens but gave the range of the form as southern Arabia. Ogilvie-Grant (1900a) reported on three collections made in southern Arabia in 1898 and 1899, including his own and one by A. Blayney Percival and W. Dodson. He ( Ogilvie-Grant, 1900a: 244) noted that the Percival-Dodson collection was in BMNH with an almost complete duplicate set in the Rothschild Collection. Prinia gracilis was listed in this paper as Burnesia gracilis , and three of the seven specimens listed by Ogilvie-Grant (1900a: 255) were collected by Dodson and came to AMNH from the Rothschild Collection; they are thus paratypes of Prinia gracilis yemenensis : AMNH 600066–600068. Strangely, Ogilvie-Grant did not list his own specimen, which became Hartert’s holotype of yemenensis.