Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:
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Cinnyris angolensis kakamegae
van Someren
Cinnyris angolensis kakamegae
van Someren, 1921: 113
(Kakamegoes)
.
Now
Chalcomitra rubescens rubescens
(Vieillot, 1819)
.
See
Rand
, 1967: 233, Fry et al., 2000: 185–187, and
Cheke and Mann, 2008a: 263–264
.
LECTOTYPE
:
AMNH 689392
, adult male, collected at
Kakamega
(
5
Kakamegoes),
00.17N
,
34.45E
(
Polhill, 1988
),
Kenya
, on
15 February 1917
, by
J. Allen Turner
(no. 1208) for
Richard Meinertzhagen. From
the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, the data given for the type, said to be in the Rothschild Collection, applied to three speci- mens.
Hartert (1928a: 206)
listed the type of
kakamegae
as Turner’s specimen no. 1208, thereby designating it the
lectotype
.
Van Someren (1921: 113)
gave the range of
kakamegae
as ‘‘North Kavirondo and
Nandi
, Yala
River
, Kaimosi, and
Nandi
Escarpment.’’ There are
four specimens
from the Rothschild Collection that are
paralectotypes
:
van Someren
Collection,
Kisumu
,
AMNH 689389
, male,
17 June 1915
; collected by Turner, Kakamegoes,
AMNH 689390
(Turner no. 1152), male,
11 February 1917
,
AMNH 689391
(1206), male,
15 February 1917
,
AMNH 689393
(1207), male,
15 February 1917
.