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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Bleda syndactyla ogowensis
Neumann
Bleda syndactyla ogowensis
Neumann, 1914: 9
(Umpokosa, Ogemwe See, Ogowe)
.
Now
Bleda syndactyla syndactyla
(Swainson, 1837)
. See
Rand
and Deignan, 1960: 273
,
Keith et al., 1992: 349
, and
Chappuis and Erard, 1993
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 566340
, adult male, collected at
Umpokosa
,
01°08′S
,
10°00′E
(
Chapin, 1954: 733
), MoyenOgooue´,
Gabon
, on
9 June 1907
, by
Dr. William J. Ansorge
(no. 312).
From
the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: In the original description, the type was said to be in the Rothschild Collection. The date on this
holotype
is unique.
Paratypes
are AMNH 566341–566343.
See
Pasquet et al. (2001)
for the results of recent DNA studies.