Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae
Author
Lecroy, Mary
Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
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Hyphantornis crocata
Hartlaub
Hyphantornis crocata
Hartlaub, 1881: 100
(Magungo)
.
Now
Ploceus ocularis crocatus
(
Hartlaub, 1881
)
. See
Hartlaub, 1887: 341
;
Hartert, 1907a: 497
;
1919: 138
;
Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 38
;
Dickinson, 2003: 720
;
Fry and Keith, 2004: 117– 120
; and
Craig, 2010: 182–183
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 724466
, female (missexed as male on label), Magungo,
02.15N
,
31.30E
(
Chapin, 1954a
),
Lake Mobutu Sese Seko
(= Albert Njansa),
Uganda
, collected by
Emin Bey. From
the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartlaub described the male and said that he had the single specimen from Magungo.
Hartlaub (1887: 341)
later referred to his earlier description of
crocata
, gave the date of collection as 25 November, and noted that the original description had referred to the Magungo bird as a male, but that it had been missexed. This
holotype
no longer has an original Emin label, and the sex was probably miscopied as Emin was known for his careful sexing of specimens. The label now on the specimen also does not have Emin’s number, no. 152, or the date of collection,
25 November 1879
, as cited by
Hartert (1907a: 497)
.
Hartlaub (1881
: pl. 5) provided a map showing Emin’s collecting localities, and (
Hartlaub, 1887
: pl. 14, fig. 11) illustrated this form as
Symplectes crocatus
.
Sánchez-Osés 2010: 67
noted that this
holotype
is missing from UMB.