Onycognathus [sic] intermedius Hartert

Onycognathus [sic] intermedius Hartert, 1895: 56 (Lukolele on the Congo).

Now Onychognathus fulgidus hartlaubii G.R. Gray, 1858 . See Hartert, 1919: 135; Sclater, 1930: 663; Chapin, 1954b: 139–140; Amadon, 1956: 25–26; Fry et al., 2000: 580–581; Dickinson, 2003: 658; and Craig and Feare, 2009: 742–743.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 669218, [male], collected at Lukolela (= Lukolele), 01.10S, 17.11E (Times Atlas), Congo River, Congo (Kinshasa), in May 1894, by F.G. Harrison. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: When Hartert described intermedius, he had the single specimen, which he designated as the holotype, but also included a specimen that was mentioned in ‘‘ Ibis, 1890, p. 164’’ from Yambuya on the Aruwimi River, collected by J.S. Jameson. This latter specimen is not in AMNH. Chapin (1954b: 139–140) synonymized intermedius with O. fulgidus hartlaubii, and the form was not mentioned by Amadon (1956: 25–26, 1962a: 90). Fry et al. (2000: 580–581) and Dickinson (2003: 658) recognized intermedius, but Craig and Feare (2009: 742–743) again synonymized it with hartlaubii.