Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 6. Passeriformes: Prunellidae, Turdidae, Orthonychidae, Timaliidae, Paradoxornithidae, Picathartidae, And Polioptilidae
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
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Monticola rufocinerea sclateri
Hartert
Monticola rufocinerea sclateri
Hartert, 1917b: 459
(Wasil,
4000 ft.
).
Now
Monticola rufocinereus sclateri
Hartert, 1917
. See
Clement, 2000: 198
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 577456
, adult male, collected at
Wasil
,
4000 ft
,
Yemen
, on
4 March 1913
, by
G. Wyman Bury
(no. 475).
From
the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Bury’s field number of the type was given in the original description. Hartert had
six males
, including the type, and
one female
of
sclateri
. Of the
six paratypes
,
four males
and
one female
came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection: AMNH 577457–577461.
Dickinson (2003: 688)
treated
Monticola
in the subfamily
Saxicolinae
, family
Muscicapidae
.
Bury
(
in
Sclater, 1917: 136
) described Wasil as a ‘‘halfruined caravanserai...
perched on a spur of the main heights at 4200 feet’’, between Hajeilah and Menakha (5 Manaˉkhah), at ca. 15 8019N, 438419E (R. Dowsett, personal commun.). It is shown on the map in
Sclater (1917
: opposite p. 131).