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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Prinia mistacea immutabilis
van Someren
Prinia mistacea immutabilis
van Someren, 1920: 93
(
Nakuru
Lake).
Now
Prinia subflava melanorhyncha
(Jardine and Fraser, 1852)
. See
Watson et al., 1986a: 145
, and
Urban et al., 1997: 222
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 599914
, adult male, collected on the
Nakuru
Plains
(as on label), on
15 May 1918
, by
V.G.L. van Someren. From
the
Rothschld Collection.
COMMENTS
: In the original description, the type was said to be in the Rothschild Collection and to bear the above data;
AMNH 599914
is the only
van Someren
specimen with these data.
In
his later paper, not in
Ibis
as stated in the description but in
Novitates Zoologicae
,
van Someren (1922: 218)
listed localities from which specimens of
immutabilis
had been obtained.
Specimens
from those localities collected before the publication of the name on
4 March 1920
are considered
paratypes
:
East Africa
:
Simba
,
Fort Hall
,
Kyambu
,
Nairobi
, and
Kisumu
;
Uganda
:
Jinja
,
Lugalambo
,
Kyetume
,
Entebbe
,
Bugoma
,
Toro
,
Chambura
, and
Masindi
.
The
AMNH
catalog numbers are:
AMNH 599880–599892
,
599894–599897
,
599900
,
599904
,
599905
,
599907–599909
,
599916– 599918
,
599925
,
599929
, and 599930.
Lake Nakuru
is at ca.
00.21S
,
36.05E
(
Polhill, 1988
)
.