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
2008-07-02
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/313.1
journal article
10.1206/313.1
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Bradornis murinus suahelicus
van Someren
Bradornis murinus suahelicus
van Someren, 1921: 104
(Londiani)
.
Now
Bradornis pallidus murinus
Hartlaub and
Finsch, 1870
. See
Watson et al., 1986b: 299
, and del
Hoyo et al., 2006: 103–104
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 603344
, adult female, collected at
Londiani
,
00.10S
,
35.36E
(Times Atlas),
Kenya
, on
12 December 1912
, by
V.G.L. van Someren. From
the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: In the original description, van Someren said that his
type
with the above data was in the Rothschild Collection. AMNH 603344 is the only van Someren specimen of this form in AMNH from Londiani or any of the other localities mentioned.
Urban et al. (1997: 450)
and
Dickinson (2003: 689)
included this taxon in the genus
Melaenornis
. In
Finsch and Hartlaub (1870: 866)
, the description of
murinus
is credited to Hartlaub and Finsch.