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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Calamonastes katangae
Neave
Calamonastes katangae
Neave, 1909: 130
(
Katanga
).
Now
Calamonastes undosus katangae
Neave, 1909
. See
Urban et al., 1997: 305
.
Syntype
: AMNH 598423, adult female, collected on the upper Lualaba
River
, western
Katanga
,
Congo
(
Kinshasa
), on
31 May 1907
, by S.A. Neave (no. 223). From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: In the original description, Neave did not designate a type or say how many specimens were collected. In a later paper,
Neave (1910a: 149)
listed
five specimens
, all collected on his second (1907) trip to the
Congo
, giving his field numbers for them but still not indicating a type, and adding (
Neave, 1910a: 81
): ‘‘The majority of the specimens, including the types, remain in the British Museum’’. However, as no types had been designated, all specimens in the original type series were
syntypes
. The AMNH specimen is marked ‘‘
Calamonastes katangae
cotype’’, initialed by Neave; it had not previously been included in the AMNH type collection.
The
month of collecting on
Neave’s
original label appears to be a poorly written ‘‘
May’
’.
This
was read as ‘‘
März’
’ by
Hartert
and so entered on the
Rothschild Collection
label.
Neave (1910a: 80
, 82, and 1910b: map opp. p. 224) gave the itinerary of his 1907 trip and a map that showed his routes.
On
31
March
his itinerary gave his location as the
Upper Dikulwe
River
Valley
,
3500–4000 ft
;
on 31
May
he was in the
Upper Lualaba Valley
, high plateau,
4000 ft
, at ca.
11.00S
,
25.40E
.
Sclater (1930: 517)
restricted the type locality to the Lufupa
River
.
Warren and Harrison (1971: 279–280)
listed a female specimen from the Lufupa
River
as a
syntype
, noting that it was labeled ‘‘type’’ and that there was an additional
syntype
in the collection. The AMNH specimen is a
syntype
, as is a specimen in RMCA (
Louette et al., 2002: 40
).