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.
text
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
10.1206/313.1
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Bathmocercus vulpinus
Reichenow
Bathmocercus vulpinus
Reichenow, 1895: 160
(Aruwimi
Flum
. (Africa occidentalis)).
Now
Bathmocercus rufus vulpinus
Reichenow, 1895
. See
Urban et al., 1997: 82–83
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 588911
, unsexed, collected on the
Aruwimi River
,
Congo
(
Kinshasa
), by
William Bonny
on the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: In the original description, the
type
was said to be in the Rothschild Collection. The description is of the male, and the above specimen is apparently the only one in male plumage collected by Bonny. It is marked ‘‘Type’’ and bears a Rothschild
type
label. The female was described as a separate species (see below).
Bonny was a member of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition led by H.M. Stanley. The Aruwimi
River
camp at Yambuya was occupied by part of the expedition, including Bonny, from
15 June 1887
to
14 February 1888
(see
Jameson, 1890
), and his specimens were probably collected during that time. Yambuya is at
01.17N
,
24.34E
(Times Atlas).
The genus
Bathmocercus
was also described in the same paper (
Reichenow, 1895: 159
).