Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:
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Lecroy, Mary
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Nectarinia pulchella aegra
Hartert
Nectarinia pulchella aegra
Hartert, 1921a: 122
(Timia)
.
Now
Cinnyris pulchellus pulchellus
(Linnaeus, 1766)
.
See
Fry et al., 2000: 258–261, and
Cheke and Mann, 2008a: 283
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 690868
, adult male, collected at
Timia
,
3800 ft
,
18.09N
,
08.46E
(
Times Atlas
),
Azbine
,
Niger
(
5
Asben
(
Aïr
),
French
West Africa
, as on label), on
21 June 1920
, by
A. Buchanan
(no. 688).
From
the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS:
In
the original description,
Hartert
designated as his
holotype
Buchanan’s
specimen no. 688, and listed a type series of
14 specimens
.
The
holotype
bears
Buchanan’s
original label, marked ‘‘
Type
,’’ and
Rothschild Collection
and type labels.
The
paratypes
, all collected in 1920, are:
Farniso
, near
Kano
,
Nigeria
,
AMNH 690846
(Buchan- an no. 185), male,
AMNH 690847
(186), female
;
Zinder
,
Niger
,
AMNH 690848
(375),
AMNH 690849
(374), males,
AMNH 690850
(209), female
;
Agades
,
Niger
,
AMNH 690855
(727), male,
AMNH 690856
(499), female
;
Azzal
,
Niger
,
AMNH 690857
(731),
AMNH 690858
(732), males,
AMNH 690859
(742), female
;
Timia
,
Niger
,
AMNH 690869
(689), male,
AMNH 690870
(695),
AMNH 690871
(690), females. Other specimens collected by
Buchanan
were from later expeditions
.