Sorella emini guasso van Someren

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 : 12

Sorella emini guasso van Someren

Sorella emini guasso van Someren, 1922b: 38 (Archer’s Post, N. Guasso Nyiro, N.E. Kenia).

Now Passer eminibey ( Hartlaub, 1880) . See Hartert, 1928: 198; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 22; Zimmerman et al., 1999: 528; Dickinson, 2003: 717; Fry and Keith, 2004: 34–36; and Summers-Smith, 2009: 806.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 719989 , adult male, collected at Archer’s Post , 00.39N, 37.41E ( Polhill, 1988), N. Uaso (= Guasso) Nyiro, northeastern Kenya, in April 1919. From the V.G.L. van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Van Someren noted in the original description that the type of guasso was in the Rothschild Collection and bore the above data; he had eight specimens. The holotype is the only specimen that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. There are two paratypes in RMCA ( Louette et al., 2002: 75). Earlier, van Someren (1922a: 166) had called attention to differences in his specimens of eminibey from northwest Kenya, but did not introduce a name at that time.