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
2008
313
1
287
journal article
0003-0090
Melaenornis lugubris ugandae
van Someren
Melaenornis lugubris ugandae
van Someren, 1921: 104
(Sezibwa)
.
Now
Melaenornis edolioides lugubris
(Müller, 1851)
. See
Watson et al., 1986b: 305
, and
Urban et al., 1997: 445
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 603092
, adult male, collected on the
Sezibwa River
(as on label),
00.16N
,
33.02E
–
01.22N
,
32.45E
(
Polhill, 1988
),
Uganda
, on
16 October 1915
, by
V.G.L. van Someren. From
the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: In the original description, van Someren said that his type was a male collected at Sezibwa (
5
Sezibwa
River
) on
16 October 1915
and was in the Rothschild Collection. The above specimen is the only male collected on this date, its label is marked ‘‘Type’’ by van Someren, and it bears a Rothschild type label.
Paratypes
from the van Someren collection that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection are: AMNH 603093 from Sezibwa
River
, AMNH 603104– 603107 from
Masindi
, AMNH 603108 from Entebbe, and AMNH 603111 from Budongo. AMNH 603107 was exchanged to NHMZ.
When
van Someren (1922: 93)
wrote his large paper on the birds of East Africa, he listed this form as a new subspecies; however, the description had been published earlier, in 1921.