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
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LeCROY, M. A. R. Y.
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Anthus nicholsoni longirostris
Neumann
Anthus nicholsoni longirostris
Neumann, 1905a: 77
(Gardulla am GandjuleSee).
Now
Anthus similis hararensis
Neumann, 1906
. See
Vaurie et al., 1960: 154
, and
Keith et al., 1992: 224
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 571474
, adult male, collected at
Gardula
,
05°38′N
,
37°28′E
(
Times Atlas
), west of
Lake Chamo
(=
Gandjule Lake
),
Ethiopia
, on
13 January 1901
, by
Oscar Neumann
(no. 587).
From
the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: In the original description,
Neumann (1905a:77)
listed a male collected by himself at Gardula on
13 January 1901
as the type and gave the range of
longirostris
as ‘‘Vom nördlichen MassaiLand bis nach Schoa und Somali Land’’. Later,
Neumann (1906: 232)
listed his no. 587 as the only specimen he collected at Gardula. It is therefore the
holotype
. Of the specimens examined (
Neumann, 1906: 232
), Doherty’s specimens collected at Escarpment, Kikuyu,
Kenya
, in 1900–1901 came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. They are
paratypes
: AMNH 571475– 571491.
Hartert (1919: 169)
erroneously cited the original description of this taxon as
Neumann (1906: 232)
.
Collin and Hartert (1927: 50)
proposed
Anthus similis neumannianus
as a nomen novum for
A. nicholsoni longirostris
, preoccupied by
Anthus obscurus longirostris
Brehm (1856b: 342)
.
Hartert (1905a: 284)
at first thought that
Anthus obscurus longirostris
was a nomen nudum introduced by A.E.
Brehm (1866: 7)
. That being the case, the name would have been available to Neumann. Later, he discovered the earlier valid description by C.L.
Brehm (1856b: 342)
, thus necessitating the nomen novum introduced by
Collin and Hartert (1927: 50)
. Both
A. nicholsoni longirostris
Neumann
and
A. similis neumannianus
Collin and Hartert
are now in the synonymy of
Anthus similis hararensis
Neumann, 1906
(
Vaurie et al., 1960: 154
).
Neumann (1902)
published an account of this expedition, with a map showing his itinerary.