Salpornis emini Hartlaub

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 96-97

Salpornis emini Hartlaub Salpornis Salvadorii orientalis Hartlaub

Salpornis emini Hartlaub, 1884: 415 (Langomeri, Eastern Equatorial Africa).

Salpornis Salvadorii orientalis Hartlaub, 1889: 115 .

Now Salpornis spilonotus emini Hartlaub, 1884 . See Hellmayr, 1901: 189, Fry et al., 2000: 128– 132, and Harrap, 2008c: 186–187.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 684906 , adult male, collected at Langomeri , 03.47N, 30.45E, ( Chapin, 1954: 686), Sudan, undated, by Emin Pasha (5 Emin Bey). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartlaub had the above single specimen when he described emini . Shelley (1888: 37), working on a shipment of specimens collected by Emin Pasha and deposited in BMNH, considered S. emini synonymous with S. salvadori , and Hartlaub (1889: 115–116) replied by introducing a replacement name, Salpornis Salvadorii orientalis , for his specimen! Despite this unusual procedure, S. salvadorii orientalis stands as a nomen novum for S. emini and shares the same type specimen. This was noted by Hartert (1920a: 439) and on the Rothschild type label. I have not seen orientalis listed in synonymies.

Sclater (1930: 714) and Greenway (1967b: 159) place Langomeri in Northern Province, Uganda. More recent coordinates, from USBGN gazetteer for Sudan not available to me, are 03.55N, 30.44E (R. Dowsett, personal commun.).