Cisticola tinniens oreophila van Someren

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 : 40

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/313.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12776943

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C087C0-9E38-1020-FFB3-49E50948FB45

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scientific name

Cisticola tinniens oreophila van Someren
status

 

Cisticola tinniens oreophila van Someren

Cisticola tinniens oreophila van Someren, 1922: 214 ( Kenia).

Now Cisticola tinniens oreophilus van Someren, 1922 . See Lynes, 1930: 554–555, 654, and Urban et al., 1997: 181.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 594344 About AMNH , unsexed but published as a male, collected on Mount Kenya (5 Kenia), 7000 ft, ca. 00.09S, 37.19E ( Polhill, 1988), Kenya, on 12 February 1919, by V.G.L. van Someren. From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description, the type was said to have been collected on 12 February 1919 and to be in the Rothschild Collection. Three specimens now in AMNH have labels stamped ‘‘ Kenia. Feb./19, 7000 ft’’. AMNH 594344 About AMNH has had ‘‘12’’ added to the date ; its label is marked ‘‘Type’’, and it bears a Rothschild type label. No other specimens are from Mt. Kenya .

Of six males, four females, and two juveniles listed by van Someren, the following paratypes came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection : AMNH 594345 About AMNH , unsexed, Kenia, Feb. 1919 ; AMNH 594346 About AMNH , unsexed immature, Kenia, Feb. 1919 ; AMNH 594347 About AMNH , male, Naivasha hills, August, 1917 ; AMNH 594348 About AMNH , female, Kinangop , 18 June 1917 ; and AMNH 594349 About AMNH , female, ‘‘ Burnt Forest’ ’, 22 September 1918. The other two female paratypes are in RMCA ( Louette et al., 2002: 49) .

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

RMCA

Royal Museum for Central Africa

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Sylviidae

Genus

Cisticola

Loc

Cisticola tinniens oreophila van Someren

LeCroy, M. 2008
2008
Loc

Cisticola tinniens oreophilus

Urban, E. K. & C. H. Fry & S. Keith 1997: 181
Lynes, H. 1930: 554
1930
Loc

Cisticola tinniens oreophila

van Someren, V. G. L. 1922: 214
1922
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