Muscicapa infulata Hartlaub

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 : 84-85

Muscicapa infulata Hartlaub

Muscicapa infulata Hartlaub, 1881a ( 1880): 626 (Magungo).

Now Muscicapa aquatica infulata Hartlaub, 1881 . See Watson et al., 1986b: 325, and Urban et al., 1997: 470.

Syntype: AMNH 604136, adult female, collected at Magungo, Uganda, on 3 December 1879, by Emin Pasha (no. 194). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartlaub (1881a: 626) did not designate a type, say how many specimens he had, or give the exact locality; however, he described the male, the female, and a somewhat younger male. The above syntype is the only Emin specimen of this form that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection .

Hartlaub published the description of infulata in two different places at almost the same time. The description on p. 626 in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London for 1880 appeared in April 1881 ( Duncan, 1937: 73, Dickinson, 2005: 428). The description in Abhundlungen naturwissenschaftlichen Vereine Bremen appeared in part 2 of Volume 7, p. 89, with the date of publication given as April 1881 in the table of contents. The date ‘‘ February 1881 ’’ that appears at the bottom of the first page of this article evidently refers to the date of the meeting at which the paper was read. Because Hartlaub, in the description in the Bremen publication, cited the description and page number in the Proceedings, he may be considered the First Reviser (ICZN, 1999: 30, Art. 24.2.1). This is also in accordance with Recommendation 24B (ICZN, 1999: 31), as most attributions of authorship refer to publication in the Proceedings.

Sclater (1930: 400) listed this form as Alseonax aquaticus infulatus and gave the locality as ‘‘probably Wadelai’’, which locality usually has been accepted ( Watson et al., 1986b: 325). However, Hartlaub (1881b: 89) gave the locality as Magungo, 02.14N, and showed it on the map (pl. 5). This locality is clearly written by Emin on his field label. Chapin (1954: 695, 735) gave the coordinates of Magungo as 02.15N, 31.30E and of Wadelai as 02.42N, 31.22E.

This syntype was not listed by Hartert in his lists of types in the Rothschild Collection and had not previously been included in the AMNH type collection.