Cisticola blanfordi sobatensis 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 : 39

Cisticola blanfordi sobatensis Neumann

Cisticola blanfordi sobatensis Neumann, 1904a: 164 (Diek am Akobo).

Now Cisticola marginatus marginatus (Heuglin, 1869) . See Hartert, 1920: 466, Lynes, 1930: 380– 381, 389–390, 620, Urban et al., 1997: 173–174, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 449–450.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 593734 , adult male, collected at Diek, 07.47N, 33.03E (R. Dowsett, personal commun.), Akobo River , Sudan, on 28 May 1901, by Oscar Neumann (no. 1255). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Neumann designated as type a male collected at Diek on the Akobo River on 28 May 1901. Both specimens that he collected at that locality have the same data. Neumann (1906a: 270) listed his number 1255 as the type, thus designating it the lectotype. The second specimen, and the only other one from Sudan that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, is a paralectotype: AMNH 593735 (Neumann no. 1254). Neumann (1906a: 270) listed a third specimen collected at Tädo am Akobo on 23 May 1901 (Neumann no. 1241), and that specimen would also be a paralectotype.

Neumann’s field number was incorrectly copied onto the Rothschild type label as ‘‘1253’’; his number ‘‘1255’’ as cited above is the correct number.