Anthreptes collaris teitensis van Someren

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 : 134

Anthreptes collaris teitensis van Someren

Anthreptes collaris teitensis van Someren, 1921: 113 (Teita) .

Now Hedydipna collaris elachior (Mearns, 1910) . See Rand, 1967: 220, Fry et al., 2000: 219–221, and Cheke and Mann, 2008a: 253–254.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 685831 , adult male, collected at Sagala , 03.31S, 38.35E ( Polhill, 1988), Teita, Kenya, on 15 August 1918, V.G. L. van Someren Collection. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren said that his type of teitensis, in the Rothschild Collection, was a male collected in Teita on 15 August 1918. The above specimen is the only one in AMNH with those data. The range of the form was given in the original description as ‘‘ South Ukambani to Teita and East Kilimanjaro.’’ Paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 685829 , male, Taveta, 19 March 1919 ; AMNH 685830 , female, Taveta, 2 June 1918 ; AMNH 685832 , female, Sagala , 18 August 1918 ; AMNH 685833 , male, Kibwezi , 15 August 1918 ; AMNH 685834 , male, Simba , 18 October 1917 ; AMNH 685835 , male, Masongaleni , 2 November 1896 ; AMNH 685836 , male, Nzui River, 15 October 1918. All but one of these were from the van Someren Collection and labeled teitensis by him ; AMNH 685835 was collected by Ansorge, but would have been available to van Someren in the Rothschild Collection .

See A. c. somereni for use of Hedydipna instead of Anthodiaeta .