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 Batis soror pallidigula van Someren Batis soror pallidigula van Someren, 1921: 103 (Lumbo) . Now Batis soror Reichenow, 1903 . See Traylor, 1986: 382 , and Urban et al., 1997: 587–588 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 649125 , adult female, collected at Lumbo , 15.00S , 40.40E (Times Atlas), Mozambique , on 17 July 1918 , by V.G.L. van Someren. From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS : In the original description, van Someren noted that his type, a female collected on 17 July 1918 , was in the Rothschild Collection. AMNH 649125 is the only female from the van Someren collection collected on that date. Later he ( van Someren, 1932: 297 ) said that he had had five specimens . Only one of these in addition to the holotype came to AMNH : paratype AMNH 649123 , male, collected at Lumbo on 17 July 1918 ; it is marked ‘‘Cotype s pallidigula’’. There are two specimens from the Rothschild Collection in AMNH collected by Arthur Loveridge at Lumbo: AMNH 649124, male, 17 July 1918 , and AMNH 649126, female, undated. Both are identified as pallidigula by Loveridge and marked by him ‘‘Co-type of race’’. Although they were collected at the type locality and one of them on the same day as the type, I find no evidence that they were in van Someren’s possession when he named the subspecies. I consider them topotypes . Loveridge ( in Friedmann and Loveridge, 1937: 15 ) noted that he had collected at Lumbo in the vicinity of the British camp from June to November 1918 .