Cisticola cisticola arabica Hartert

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 : 43

Cisticola cisticola arabica Hartert

Cisticola cisticola arabica Hartert, 1917a: 458 (Hajeilah) .

Now Cisticola juncidis uropygialis (Fraser, 1843) . See Lynes, 1930: 102–104, 618, Watson et al., 1986a: 117, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 458.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 592745 , adult male, collected at Hujaylah (5 Hajeilah), 2080 ft, 14.59N, 43.37E ( USBGN, 1976b), Yemen, on 1 April 1913, by G. Wyman Bury (no. 583).

COMMENTS: Hartert cited Bury’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description. His type series comprised three specimens collected by Bury at Hajeilah and ‘‘others’’ from Lahej. Paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 592744, male, and 592746, female, from Hajeilah collected by Bury, and AMNH 592747, male, and 592748, female, from Lahej collected by W. Dodson.

Bury’s collection was first reported on by Sclater (1917), where birds of this form were listed as Cisticola cisticola aridula ( Sclater, 1917: 156) . Bury (in Sclater, 1917: 135) described Hajeilah as a ‘‘small township about 30 miles from Bajil, and 2080 feet above sea-level’’ in the foothills. Bājil is at 14.58N, 43.14E (Times Atlas).