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 2008-07-02 313 1 1 287 http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/313.1 journal article 10.1206/313.1 0003-0090 13223808 Parisoma blanfordi distincta Hartert Parisoma blanfordi distincta Hartert, 1917a: 459 ( Gerba , South Arabia ). Now Sylvia leucomelaena leucomelaena (Hemprich and Ehrenberg, 1833) . See Shirihai et al., 2001: 196 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 608806 , adult male, collected at Gerba , Amiri District , South Yemen ( 5 South Arabia ), on 15 November, by G. Wyman Bury (no. 511). From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS : In the original description, Hartert gave Bury’s unique field number of the holotype . Paratypes are AMNH 608807 , 16 June ; AMNH 608808 , 13 October ; and AMNH 608809 , 15 November , from Gerba ; AMNH 608810 , 21 March , from El Kubar ; and AMNH 608811 , 8 April 1913 , from Hajeilah. Hartert noted that he had 15 specimens of distincta , presumably including the type, only 6 of which came to AMNH . Hartert’s report was based on the part of Bury’s 1912–1913 collection that went to Rothschild ; the remainder went to BMNH . Sclater (1917: 158) , who reported on the BMNH portion, listed a single Bury specimen of this form as Sylvia blanfordi , but said that the BMNH had numerous specimens from various localities in southern Arabia. Hartert might well have borrowed specimens for comparison . Only one of the type series of distincta at AMNH was definitely part of the 1912–1913 collection, paratype AMNH 608811 collected at Hajeilah on 8 April 1913 . The Rothschild label on this specimen is printed ‘‘ Yemen , S.W. Arabia 1912–1913’’. The labels on the holotype and the other four paratypes are printed ‘‘S. Arabia’’, with no year given. According to Meinertzhagen (1954: 579) , Bury collected in Gerba and El Kubar, Amiri District north of Aden in the vicinity of Lahej , 13.01N , 44.54E (Times Atlas), South Yemen , in 1901 and 1902. R. Dowsett (personal commun.) wrote that Gerba is the type locality of Lanius arabicus ( Ogilvie-Grant, 1905: 78 ) , with syntypes registered in BMNH in 1902. While most of that collection went to BMNH and was not reported on as a whole, some of the specimens apparently were acquired by Rothschild.