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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Apalis nigriceps collaris
van Someren
Apalis nigriceps collaris
van Someren, 1915a: 107
(Bugoma forest).
Now
Apalis nigriceps collaris
van Someren, 1915
. See
Urban et al., 1997: 271
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 598889
, adult male, collected in the
Bugoma forest
, ca.
01.20N
,
31.05E
(
Polhill, 1988: 23
),
Uganda
, on
16 October 1913
, by
V.G.L. van Someren. From
the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: In the original description, van Someren designated as type an adult male in the Rothschild Collection collected in the Bugoma forest on
16 October 1913
. Tied together with it and sharing a label is an immature male specimen presumably collected at the same time. Both of these birds are clearly marked as males on the original label, but one of them, AMNH 598890, has all of the signs of immaturity referred to by van Someren in his description. The sex of this immature has been incorrectly copied onto the Rothschild label as a female and
Hartert (1920: 460)
mistakenly referred to ‘‘Types: s
♀
’’. It is a
paratype
of
A. n. collaris
.
In
the original description,
van Someren
referred to specimens from
Mabira
,
Kyetume
,
Bugoma
, and
Ituri
forests in
Uganda
.
Paratypes
in
AMNH
, in addition to
AMNH 598890
, are two birds from the
Mabira forest
:
AMNH 598891
, male, collected
5 May 1914
, and
AMNH 598892
, female, collected
25 June 1914
. In his description,
van Someren
did not say how many specimens he had or whether he had examined specimens in the Rothschild Collection taken by others
;
I have only considered
van Someren
specimens to be
paratypes
. Additional
paratypes
are in
RMCA
(
Louette et al., 2002: 39
)
.