Bradypterus carpalis Chapin, 1916

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 : 10

Bradypterus carpalis Chapin

Bradypterus carpalis Chapin, 1916: 27 (Faradje, Upper Uele District, Belgian Congo).

Now Bradypterus carpalis Chapin, 1916 . See Dowsett and Dowsett-Lemaire, 1993: 356, and Urban et al., 1997: 61–62, 65–66.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 160863 , adult male, collected at Faradje, 03.45N, 29.43E ( Times Atlas ), Congo (Kinshasa), on 21 February 1913, by James P. Chapin (no. 4531) on the Lang-Chapin Congo Expedition.

COMMENTS: Chapin gave his unique field number for the holotype in the original description and noted that he had five specimens (including the type). Paratypes are: AMNH 160860 , 160861 , males from Faradje ; AMNH 160862 , male from Vankerckhovenville ; and AMNH 160864 , female from Faradje .