Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:
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Lecroy, Mary
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
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Cinnyris rockefelleri
Chapin
Cinnyris rockefelleri
Chapin, 1932: 16
(at
9000 feet
on Mt. Kandashomwa, west of Ruzizi Valley).
Now
Cinnyris rockefelleri
Chapin, 1932
.
See
Fry et al., 2000: 254, and
Cheke and Mann, 2008a: 279
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 410078
, adult male, collected on
Mt. Kandashomwa
,
9000 ft
,
03.04S
,
28.52E
(
Chapin, 1954: 673
), west of the
Ruzizi River
,
Congo
(
Kinshasa
), on
9 July 1929
, by
J. Sterling Rockefeller
on the
American Museum Tanganyika Expedition
of 1928–1929 (no. 766).
COMMENTS: Chapin cited the AMNH number of the
holotype
in the original description and noted that he had a second male. The
paratype
is
AMNH 410079
, male, collected on
10 July 1929
at the same locality by Charles B.G. Murphy (no. 769).