Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 6. Passeriformes: Prunellidae, Turdidae, Orthonychidae, Timaliidae, Paradoxornithidae, Picathartidae, And Polioptilidae Author Mary Division of Vertebrate American Museum of (lecroy @ Author Croy Zoology (Ornithology) of Natural History @ amnh. org) Author History, Bulletin Of The American Museum Of Natural Author At, Central Park West Number Issued Author Street, Th 292, 132 pp. May 5, 2005 Author York, New . Author Ny text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 2005-05-05 2005 292 1 132 journal article 0003-0090 Lioptilus abyssinicus ansorgei Rothschild Lioptilus abyssinicus ansorgei Rothschild, 1918: 78 (Mucuio (Kuvali river), Benguella). Now Pseudoalcippe abyssinica abyssinica (Rüppell, 1840) . See Fry et al., 2000: 29 , 32, and Dickinson, 2003: 602 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 588859, adult female, collected at Mucuio, 138289S, 148449E ( Chapin, 1954: 706 ), Cuval (5 Kuvali) River (or Rio Cubal da Hanha, Chapin, 1954: 657 ), Angola , on 14 August 1904 , by William J. Ansorge (no. 634). From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Rothschild had only a male and a female specimen and designated the female as the type in the original description. The male paratype is AMNH 588860, collected on the same day. Deignan (1964b: 412) recognized ansorgei and included it in Alcippe abyssinica . Subsequent treatments are summarized in Fry et al. (2000: 29 , 32) and Dickinson (2003: 602) .