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
journal article
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Prinia gracilis yemenensis
Hartert
Prinia gracilis yemenensis
Hartert, 1909: 609
(Scheik Osman bei
Aden
).
Now
Prinia gracilis yemenensis
Hartert, 1909
. See del
Hoyo et al., 2006: 432–433
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 600065
, adult male, collected at
Sheikh
’
Othman
or
Shaykh
’
Uthmān
(
5
Scheik Osman),
12.53N
,
44.58E
(Times Atlas), near
Aden
,
southern Arabia
, on
20 November 1898
, by
W.R. Ogilvie-Grant
(no. 8).
From
the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: Hartert gave Ogilvie-Grant’s unique field number of the type in the original description. He did not mention other specimens but gave the range of the form as southern Arabia.
Ogilvie-Grant (1900a)
reported on three collections made in southern Arabia in 1898 and 1899, including his own and one by A. Blayney Percival and W. Dodson. He (
Ogilvie-Grant, 1900a: 244
) noted that the Percival-Dodson collection was in BMNH with an almost complete duplicate set in the Rothschild Collection.
Prinia gracilis
was listed in this paper as
Burnesia gracilis
, and three of the
seven specimens
listed by
Ogilvie-Grant (1900a: 255)
were collected by Dodson and came to AMNH from the Rothschild Collection; they are thus
paratypes
of
Prinia gracilis yemenensis
: AMNH 600066–600068. Strangely, Ogilvie-Grant did not list his own specimen, which became Hartert’s
holotype
of
yemenensis
.