Bradyornis muscicapina 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 : 82

Bradyornis muscicapina Hartlaub

Bradyornis muscicapina Hartlaub, 1891: 9 (Bagamojo) .

Now Muscicapa striata striata (Pallas, 1764) . See Rothschild, 1913: 65, Hartert, 1920: 489, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 114.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 603709 , adult female, collected at Bagamoyo (5 Bagamojo), 06.26S, 38.55E (Times Atlas), Tanzania, undated, by Emin Pasha. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartlaub, in the original description, said that he had a single female specimen from Bagamojo, a coastal station ( Hartlaub, 1890: 150). Later, Ogilvie-Grant (1913: 634) considered Bradyornis muscicapina to be a synonym of Bradyornis murinus . The type of B. muscicapina had been considered lost, but Rothschild (1913: 65) discovered it in his own collection. He and Ogilvie-Grant then examined the type and agreed that it was a specimen of Muscicapa striata . Hartert (1920: 489) identified it as Muscicapa striata striata . The specimen is in poor condition.