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.
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2008
2008-07-02
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/313.1
journal article
10.1206/313.1
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Bias musicus changamwensis
van Someren
Bias musicus changamwensis
van Someren, 1919: 24
(Changamwe,
Mombasa
).
Now
Bias musicus changamwensis
van Someren, 1919
. See
Urban et al., 1997: 552
.
SYNTYPES
: AMNH 649713, adult male, and 649714, female, collected at Changamwe,
04.01S
,
39.38E
(
Polhill, 1988: 39
),
Kenya
, on
21 July 1918
, by collectors for V.G.L. van Someren. From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: Male and female specimens bearing this date were listed in the original description as ‘‘Types’’, and both are listed as ‘‘Types’’ by
Hartert (1928: 220)
. They are the only two van Someren specimens from Changamwe that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection.
Spawls (1978: 13)
noted that Changamwe was a railway station inland from
Mombasa
.
Del
Hoyo et al. (2006: 185)
treat
Bias musicus
as monotypic.