Bradypterus cinnamomeus pallidior Neumann

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 11

Bradypterus cinnamomeus pallidior Neumann

Bradypterus cinnamomeus pallidior Neumann, 1914: 10 (Urwald westlich von Baraka).

Now Bradypterus cinnamomeus cinnamomeus (Rüppell, 1840) . See Chapin, 1953b: 437–438, and Urban et al., 1997: 73–75.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 592272 , adult female (not male), collected in the virgin forest northwest (as on field label) of Baraka, 1900 m, Congo (Kinshasa), on 1 December 1908, by Rudolf Grauer (no. 3819). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, the type was said to be a male collected in ‘‘ Urwald westlich von Baraka’ ’ by R. Grauer and in the Rothschild Collection. AMNH 592272 is the only specimen of this form that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection ; it is clearly marked female on Grauer’s field label. Hartert (1920: 469) corrected without comment what must have been a lapsus on Neumann’s part, adding Grauer’s field number. Also present is a Rothschild type label.

Baraka is at 04.09S, 29.05E (Times Atlas).