Cisticola neumanni 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 : 36

Cisticola neumanni Hartert

Cisticola neumanni Hartert, 1901c: 13 (Mount Kenya).

Now Cisticola hunteri Shelley, 1889 . See Lynes, 1930: 336–344, 651, and Urban et al., 1997: 153– 154.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 593580 , [unsexed immature], collected at Camp 20, western slope of Mount Kenya, 10,000 ft, 00.10S, 37.19E (Times Atlas), on 27 August 1899, by H.J. Makinder (no. 46). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert gave Makinder’s ‘‘no. 46’’ for the holotype in the original description but no date of collection; in his later listing of Rothschild types, he ( Hartert, 1920: 465) incorrectly gave the collecting date as 7 August 1899. On the field label and in his own clear hand, the collector wrote the date as ‘‘ 27 August 1899 ’’ and his name as ‘‘H.J. Makinder’’; Hartert spelled it ‘‘Mackinder’’. No other specimens from Mt. Kenya came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection .

V.G.L. van Someren (1922: 216) called attention to the immature condition of the holotype.