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.
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2008
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Camaroptera brevicaudata pulchra
Zedlitz
Camaroptera brevicaudata pulchra
Zedlitz, 1911: 331
(Canhoca,
Angola
).
Now
Camaroptera superciliaris
(Fraser, 1843)
. See
Watson et al., 1986a: 190
,
Urban et al., 1997: 300
, and
Dean, 2000: 237
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 599784
, adult female, collected at
Canhoca
,
09.15S
,
14.41E
(
Dean, 2000: 372
),
Angola
, on
15 November 1903
, by
W.J. Ansorge
(no. 1134, not 1143).
From
the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: The above specimen is the only Rothschild specimen bearing the data cited for the
holotype
;
it is marked ‘‘
pulchra Zedl.
’’ and ‘‘*Typus’’ in Zedlitz’s hand.
Hartert (1920: 459)
noted the error in the citation of Ansorge’s field number. There is a single
paratype
in
AMNH
:
AMNH 599782
, male from
80 km
north of
Kasongo Forest
,
400 m
, collected on
10 February 1909
by
Rudolf Grauer
(no. 4237)
.