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
2008-07-02
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/313.1
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Platysteira cyanea aethiopica
Neumann
Platysteira cyanea aethiopica
Neumann, 1905b: 210
(Banka in Malo).
Now
Platysteira cyanea aethiopica
Neumann, 1905
. See
Urban et al., 1997: 568
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 649583
, adult male, collected at Bonca (
5
Banka
),
06.16N
,
36.15E
(
R. Dowsett
, personal commun.), Malo,
Ethiopia
, on
15 February 1901
, by Oscar Neumann (no. 807). From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: In the original description, Neumann listed his specimen number 807, now
AMNH 649583
, as ‘‘Typus der subspecies’’ and five
additional specimens
in his type series. The
paratypes
are:
AMNH 649584
(Neumann no. 832), male, Banka,
16 February 1901
;
AMNH 649585
(808), female, Banka,
15 February 1901
(also listed as ‘‘Cotypus für das weibliche Kleid’’)
;
AMNH 649589
(1138), male, Bako, Binescho,
19 April 1901
;
AMNH 649590
(1044), juvenile female, Kankati Gibbe, Djemma,
26 March 1901
;
and
AMNH 649591
(1006), female, Anderatscha,
16 March 1901
. I did not
find AMNH
649589 in
the collection
.