Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae
Author
LeCroy, M.
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2008
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/313.1
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Cisticola cisticola neurotica
Meinertzhagen
Cisticola cisticola neurotica
Meinertzhagen, 1920: 25
(Sidon on the Syrian coast).
Now
Cisticola juncidis neuroticus
Meinertzhagen, 1920
. See
Lynes, 1930: 88–89
, 651, and del
Hoyo et al., 2006: 458
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 592592
, adult male, collected at
Säida
(
5
Sidon),
33.32N
,
35.22E
(Times Atlas),
Lebanon
, on
30 October 1919
, by Richard Meinertzhagen. From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: Meinertzhagen listed the type in the Rothschild Collection, citing the above data. He did not say how many specimens he examined, although he gave measurements for more than one. Only
one paratype
came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection: AMNH 592593, a male collected at Artuft on
1 November 1918
. A specimen in the Rothschild Collection (now AMNH 592594) from
Mesopotamia
was excluded from the type series.