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.
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Riparia paludicola dohertyi
Hartert
Riparia paludicola dohertyi
Hartert, 1910d: 95
(Mau Escarpment,
British East Africa
,
8000 feet
).
Now
Riparia paludicola ducis
Reichenow, 1908
. See
Hartert, 1922b: 377
, and
Keith et al., 1992: 138
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 559362
, adult male, collected above ‘‘
Escarpment’
’,
8000 ft
,
Kikuyu Mts.
,
Kenya
, in
September 1900
, by William Doherty. From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
:
Three specimens
were collected by Doherty in this locality;
the
holotype
is the only one collected in
September 1900
. The
two paratypes
are
AMNH 559363
, sex unknown, and
AMNH 559364
, female, both collected in
December 1900
.
Hartert (1922b: 377)
noted that his use of ‘‘Mau Escarpment’’ in the original description was incorrect.
Hartert (1902d: 620)
described this locality as ‘‘in the Kikuyu Mountains above the ‘Escarpment’ station of the
Uganda
railway. ‘Escarpment,’ about halfway between Ft. Smith (Nairobi) and Naivasha station, was in
October 1900
the terminus of the railway.’’ He further noted that Doherty’s collections were ‘‘from the eastern side of the Great Rift Valley’’. The Escarpment Station is at
01°01′S
,
36°37′E
(R.J. Dowsett, personal commun.).