TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE Author LeCROY, M. A. R. Y. text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2003 2003-09-30 278 278 1 156 http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/0003-0090(2003)278<0001:tsobit>2.0.co;2 journal article 10.1206/0003-0090(2003)278<0001:tsobit>2.0.co;2 0003-0090 Malaconotus interpositus Hartert Malaconotus interpositus Hartert, 1911b: 36 (districts northwest of Lake Tanganyika). Now Malaconotus blanchoti interpositus Hartert, 1911 . See Fry et al., 2000: 389 . LECTOTYPE : AMNH 663941 , adult male, collected 40 km west of Baraka , 04°09′S , 29°05′E (Times Atlas), Congo (Kinshasa), on 5 January 1909 , by Rudolf Grauer (no. 4019). From the Rothschild collection. COMMENTS : In the original description, Hartert (1911b: 36) did not designate a type but mentioned that the original series consisted of seven Grauer specimens from districts northwest of Lake Tanganyika and a specimen collected by W.J. Ansorge at Caiala, Bihe´, Angola . Later, Hartert (1920: 452) designated the above specimen the lectotype . Actually, seven Grauer specimens, in addition to the lectotype , and the Ansorge specimen came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. These paralectotypes are AMNH 663938– 663940 and 663942–663946.