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
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Terpsiphone rufiventer somereni
Chapin
Terpsiphone rufiventer somereni
Chapin, 1948: 114
(Budongo Forest,
Uganda
).
Now
Terpsiphone rufiventer somereni
Chapin, 1948
. See
Urban et al., 1997: 543
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 652518
, adult male, collected at
Budongo
, ca.
01.47N
,
31.35E
(
Polhill, 1988: 21
),
Uganda
, on
14 June 1919
, by
V.G.L. van Someren. From
the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: Chapin gave the AMNH number of the
holotype
in the original description and noted that he had studied
30 specimens
, probably including the type but excluding immature and juvenile specimens; he had also borrowed some specimens from van Someren. It proved very difficult to decide which specimens are
paratypes
, as Chapin did not indicate this on the labels. All specimens of
somereni
from Budongo and Bugoma are
paratypes
: Budongo: AMNH 652513–652517 and 652519–652527; Bugoma: AMNH 652528–652533. There are also
two paratypes
from Budongo at RMCA (
Louette et al., 2002: 56
).
Chapin (1948: 121)
presented a chart of the occurrence of hybrids in the Entebbe-Mabira area of
Uganda
where
somereni
also occurs. Using this chart and his description, I was able to decide that three additional males,
five females
, and
three immatures
were possible
paratypes
of
somereni
: Lugalambo: males, AMNH 652534 and 652535, females, AMNH 652536, 652537, and 6452538; Mabira: immature female, AMNH 652540, female, AMNH 652541; Mubango, female, AMNH 652542; Kyetuma, immature male, AMNH 652546; Sezibwa River, male, AMNH 652552, and immature female, AMNH 652553.