Petronia dentata buchanani Hartert

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 15

Petronia dentata buchanani Hartert

Petronia dentata buchanani Hartert, 1921: 134 (Zinder) .

Now Gymnoris dentata buchanani ( Hartert, 1921) . See Hartert, 1928: 198; Dickinson, 2003: 718; Fry and Keith, 2004: 42–43; and Summers- Smith, 2009: 810.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 717565 , adult male, collected at Zinder, 1500 ft, 13.46N, 08.58E ( Times Atlas), southern Niger (= French West Africa, as on label), on 19 February 1920, by Angus Buchanan. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert designated as the type of buchanani the specimen bearing Buchanan’s field number 414. The Rothschild Collection held a single specimen when Hartert named buchanani, but he noted: ‘‘There are in the British Museum two females collected at Yo and Kuka, near Lake Chad, which must belong to this new subspecies.’’

Most recent authors consider dentata monotypic, but Summers-Smith (2009: 810) recognized buchanani.