Dicrurus modestus ugandensis van Someren

Dicrurus modestus ugandensis van Someren, 1921a: 102 (Budongo) .

Now Dicrurus modestus coracinus J. and E. Verreaux, 1851. See van Someren, 1922a: 125; Hartert, 1928: 191; Vaurie, 1949b: 222–231; 1962: 139–140; Zimmerman et al., 1999: 506; Fry et al., 2000: 529–531; Dickinson, 2003: 491; and Rocamora and Yeatman-Berthelot, 2009: 223–224.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 671503, adult male, collected at Budongo, ca. 01.47N, 31.35E (Polhill, 1988), Bunyoro, Uganda, on 10 December 1918. From the V.G.L. van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren said that the type with the above data was in the Rothschild collection; he also recorded examining 19 specimens from Bugoma, Budongo, Lugalambo, Mabira, and Elgon in Uganda and from Kavirondo in ‘‘ East Africa. ’’ The following paratypes are in AMNH: Budongo, AMNH 671502, 671504–671506, three males, one female, 5–6 June 1919, AMNH 671507, female, 20 December 1918; Elgon, AMNH 671509, female, 7 March 1915; Mabira, AMNH 671515, female, 19 September 1913; Lugalambo, AMNH 671516, 671517, two males, 30 August 1910, AMNH 671518, male, 5 September 1916, AMNH 671519– 671521, two males, one female, 25 January–2 February 1919 .